Marana, AZ, USA
Saw a silver shiny sphere twice while driving north on Cortaro before Silverbell in Marana, AZ.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-06
- Where
- Marana, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 32.437, -111.225 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-marana-az-2008-7475e8
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
- Marana, AZ shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 178 reports came from Arizona in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.