CaseCone2015

Goodyear, AZ, USA

Radiating Clouds. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-11-07
Where
Goodyear, AZ, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.435, -112.358 · exact
Slug
cone-over-goodyear-az-2015-a59b24
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…

In context

  • Goodyear, AZ shows up 44 times across the archive.
  • 282 reports came from Arizona in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Report

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