UFOMYST
CaseOval2013

Fort Defiance (Navajo Nation), AZ, USA

"It felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest!"

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 (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-02
Where
Fort Defiance (Navajo Nation), AZ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10-20 seconds
Geo
35.744, -109.076 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fort-defiance-navajo-nation-az-2013-0a6c2d
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…

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In context

  • Fort Defiance (Navajo Nation), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 235 reports came from Arizona in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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