Gila Bend, AZ, USA
Amber lights in southern night sky near Gila Bend, AZ. ((NUFORC Note: Possible military flares at Gila Bend firing range?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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
- Brief witness text (54 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
- 2006-09-05
- Where
- Gila Bend, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.948, -112.717 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gila-bend-az-2006-1bf0ab
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 shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 141 reports came from Arizona in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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