Cottonwood, AZ, USA
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Report quality: Moderate60/100
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
- Brief witness text (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-02
- Where
- Cottonwood, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 34.739, -112.010 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cottonwood-az-2007-8f3f3f
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Cottonwood, AZ in August 2007 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Cottonwood, AZ has 30 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 142 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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