CaseCylinder1972
Tucson, AZ, USA
A bright steadily flashing light traveled across the dark sky then turned its direction toward me and hovered about 25' in front of me
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-08-02
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-tucson-az-1972-d3ff0f
In context
- Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
- 1972 brought 4 reports from Arizona.
- The 1970s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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