Sierra Vita, AZ, USA
Sierra Vista, Az 1/1/2011 12:02 8 slow moving hovering objects lasted about 8 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-01
- Where
- Sierra Vita, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 6-7 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-sierra-vita-az-2011-5ab443
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
- Sierra Vita, AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 163 reports came from Arizona in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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