CaseFormation2005

Gilbert, AZ, USA

Disappearing in a fading smoke.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-28
Where
Gilbert, AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 sec
Geo
33.353, -111.789 · exact
Slug
formation-over-gilbert-az-2005-9b8331
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…

In context

  • This is one of 146 reports logged in Gilbert, AZ.
  • This case is one of 204 Arizona reports filed in 2005.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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