CaseTeardrop2009

Beaver Dam, AZ, USA

Bright Green diamond shaped craft with red around it crashes somewhere by the gorge leading to St. George Utah

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-25
Where
Beaver Dam, AZ, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
36.899, -113.933 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-beaver-dam-az-2009-670c9f
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

  • Beaver Dam, AZ shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 161 reports came from Arizona in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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