Whiteriver, AZ, USA
Me and my family were catfishing at a pond called Navajo Pit. It took us 20 minutes from home to get there. Then 30 minutes into our fi
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-17
- Where
- Whiteriver, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- Catfishing
- Geo
- 33.837, -109.964 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-whiteriver-az-2008-b43dd2
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…
In context
- Whiteriver, AZ shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 178 reports came from Arizona in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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