Payson, AZ, USA
On the night of June 16, 2007, I saw two of the very brightest lights I have ever seen. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter?? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-06-16
- Where
- Payson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 34.231, -111.325 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-payson-az-2007-0c0748
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Payson, AZ shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 142 reports came from Arizona in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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