Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
Extremely bright glowing orange ball of light with some sort of dim object obove it, possibly a reflection on a larger surface
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-25
- Where
- Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- approximately 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.610, -112.316 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-prescott-valley-az-2005-8ac0bc
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
- This is one of 53 reports logged in Prescott Valley, AZ.
- This case is one of 204 Arizona reports filed in 2005.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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