Oracle, AZ, USA
4 or 5 orange-tinted lights, in formation, then split off and disappeared. No sound. Duration: a few seconds.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-16
- Where
- Oracle, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-6 seconds
- Geo
- 32.611, -110.771 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-oracle-az-2014-34ae82
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
- Oracle, AZ has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 302 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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