Yuma, AZ, USA
These light just went all around like an oval shape it moved to the right as It moved the back lights went off and the front lights li
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-15
- Where
- Yuma, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.725, -114.624 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-yuma-az-2012-61d39e
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
- Yuma, AZ has 71 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 212 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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