Gila Bend, AZ, USA
Wow, Thing's that you wouldn' t think of happenin to you!! They Can, and Sometime's DO!!
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-20
- Where
- Gila Bend, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 10.00
- Geo
- 32.948, -112.717 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-gila-bend-az-2005-8a7ac7
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
- This is one of 28 reports logged in Gila Bend, AZ.
- This case is one of 204 Arizona reports filed in 2005.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.