Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
Oval object with white blinking rotating lights. After 30 seconds it veered and vanished.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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.
- Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-17
- Where
- Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.610, -112.316 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-prescott-valley-az-2020-4a0ecc
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
- Prescott Valley, AZ shows up 53 times across the archive.
- 224 reports came from Arizona in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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