CaseRectangle2009

Bullhead City, AZ, USA

White box, stood still, then began to fade with a red glow.((NUFORC Note: Confirmed high-altitude research balloon. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-05-19
Where
Bullhead City, AZ, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
35.148, -114.568 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-bullhead-city-az-2009-896c8a
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…

In context

  • Bullhead City, AZ has 33 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 161 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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