Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
It looked like hazy planet or sphere, at first glance I thought the sun was shinning off it, but this did not move.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-30
- Where
- Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.610, -112.316 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-prescott-valley-az-2020-bb49b7
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…
Local cluster
Prescott Valley, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2020.
In context
- One of 53 documented reports from Prescott Valley, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 224 sightings in 2020.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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