Bullhead City, AZ, USA
emtying the trash looking west over our western mountain range i saw what i thought was a jet departing from laughlin airport. as i
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-04
- Where
- Bullhead City, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 35.148, -114.568 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bullhead-city-az-2009-c176b6
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
- Bullhead City, AZ shows up 33 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Arizona in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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