UFOMYST
CaseSphere1989

Tucson, AZ, USA

giant ball of fire seen over tucson hour after dark around 1989

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-10-16
Where
Tucson, AZ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
32.222, -110.926 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-tucson-az-1989-c5aa1c
Wave

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In context

  • Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 13 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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