CaseDisk2005

Black Mesa/Shonto, AZ, USA

I saw a large round flying object moving very fast.

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 (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-05-18
Where
Black Mesa/Shonto, AZ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.275, -109.867 · exact
Slug
disk-over-black-mesa-shonto-az-2005-b1a081
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

  • Black Mesa/Shonto, AZ has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 204 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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