CaseCircle2019

Tucson, AZ, USA

It was round, basketball size,dark brown, silent, no lights. It moved quickly in a direct line towards the east. At the same time, th

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-03-23
Where
Tucson, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
32.222, -110.926 · exact
Slug
circle-over-tucson-az-2019-b487d5
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Tucson, AZ in March 2019 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 231 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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