Tucson, AZ, USA
UFO sighting Tucson, AZ, Sept 19, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-19
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tucson-az-2011-bcd4ee
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
September 2011 was a busy month for Tucson, AZ: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 426 reports logged in Tucson, AZ.
- This case is one of 163 Arizona reports filed in 2011.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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