Tucson, AZ, USA
This is a follow-up from last nights report. We again observed a light flash of ten repetitions each about 60 seconds apart in the same
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-19
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-tucson-az-2009-235197
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
4 reports came out of Tucson, AZ in April 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 161 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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