UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Marana, AZ, USA

Bright white light with large tail, like photos of a comet, moving NE to SW. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of missile launch?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 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
2017-12-22
Where
Marana, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
32.437, -111.225 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-marana-az-2017-34bb09
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…

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In context

  • Marana, AZ has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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