CaseSphere2015

Chandler, AZ, USA

I saw a glowing orange light that was ascending and accelerating very slowly. When it was pretty close it just blasted into the clouds

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-05
Where
Chandler, AZ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
33.306, -111.841 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-chandler-az-2015-637dbb
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

  • Chandler, AZ has 147 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 282 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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