CaseOval1982

Yuma, AZ, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Yuma, AZ, USA
Start: 1982-02-15
Location: Yuma, AZ, USA

Two on duty Military policemen observed a large flying orange oval come down from the north over the Cibola rage and perch on a tower.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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 (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1982-02-15
Where: Yuma, AZ, USA
Shape: Oval
Duration: 10 MIN.
Geo: 32.725, -114.624 · exact
Slug: oval-over-yuma-az-1982-d7885b

In context

Yuma, AZ shows up 71 times across the archive.
3 reports came from Arizona in 1982.
In the 1980s, 5.2% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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