Gila Bend, AZ, USA
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- No witness text on file
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-28
- Where
- Gila Bend, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.948, -112.717 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-gila-bend-az-2005-ce470b
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
- Gila Bend, AZ has 28 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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