Gilbert, AZ, USA
Dark saucer with very bright multicolored lights that was flying close to a commercial plane shot across the sky in a half circular pat
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-11-05
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 seconds or less
- Geo
- 33.353, -111.789 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-gilbert-az-2019-cf7f10
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
- Gilbert, AZ shows up 146 times across the archive.
- 231 reports came from Arizona in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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