Tucson, AZ, USA
One spherical silver object was sighted for 15 seconds in the central Tucson skies below a plane with contrails heading East .
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-03
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-tucson-az-2008-9a5bce
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
- This is one of 426 reports logged in Tucson, AZ.
- This case is one of 178 Arizona reports filed in 2008.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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