Sierra Vista, AZ, USA
Bright chemtrail or similar during early morning phenomenon. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "contrail," not "chemtrail." PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-07-12
- Where
- Sierra Vista, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 31.555, -110.304 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-sierra-vista-az-2006-e248f2
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
- One of 28 documented reports from Sierra Vista, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 141 sightings in 2006.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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