San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
Black sphere rose from the west. It made no noise as it traveled south. Then descended again.I couldn't tell the sizebut it was perfect
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-27
- Where
- San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.191, -111.528 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-tan-valley-az-2015-9012cd
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
- San Tan Valley, AZ has 45 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 282 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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