Area 51 (general area; in flight), AZ, USA
Area 51 large bright light on or near ground with long, thin, grey shape bisecting the light, seen out of jet window at 35,000 ft..
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-13
- Where
- Area 51 (general area; in flight), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 8:00 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- changing-over-area-51-general-area-in-flight-az-2013-819a76
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
- Area 51 (general area; in flight), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 235 reports came from Arizona in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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