Cottonwood, AZ, USA
flew from East to West in straight line, flat circular object with dim white lights around edges. Seem to become brighter and then va
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-28
- Where
- Cottonwood, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.739, -112.010 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-cottonwood-az-2020-5948c6
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
- One of 30 documented reports from Cottonwood, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 224 sightings in 2020.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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