UFOMYST
CaseFlash2015

Gila Bend, AZ, USA

BRIGHT FLASH IN SKY NORTH OF GILA BEND JUST EAST OF THE 85 NORTH. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy 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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 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
2015-11-07
Where
Gila Bend, AZ, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
32.948, -112.717 · exact
Slug
flash-over-gila-bend-az-2015-236a3c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 28 documented reports from Gila Bend, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 282 sightings in 2015.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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