Show Low, AZ, USA
Big bright dot w/ a huge multi-colored tail which fanned out in the back; huge cloud. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 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
- 2017-12-23
- Where
- Show Low, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 34.254, -110.030 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-show-low-az-2017-47e259
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
- This is one of 29 reports logged in Show Low, AZ.
- This case is one of 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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