Gilbert, AZ, USA
Round shaped object with no blinking lights, just white, first high in air, then lower instantly, moving across the sky, disappears.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-15
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.353, -111.789 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-gilbert-az-2016-e1b516
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.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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