Yuma, AZ, USA
oval stationary object over Yuma Proving Grounds on New Years Day 2011.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-01-01
- Where
- Yuma, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 Minutes
- Geo
- 32.725, -114.624 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-yuma-az-2011-4429b4
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
- One of 71 documented reports from Yuma, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 163 sightings in 2011.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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