UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Flagstaff, AZ, USA

Bright white, circular orb flew out from behind a contrail (chemtrail), then flew back behind it.

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-19
Where
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
35.198, -111.651 · exact
Slug
circle-over-flagstaff-az-2008-4d0835
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Flagstaff, AZ shows up 53 times across the archive.
  • 178 reports came from Arizona in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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