Tempe, AZ, USA
We were out smoking a cigarette when we saw this craft cover across the sky It did not have a sound but it had a vibration.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-18
- Where
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.909 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-tempe-az-2015-c93d33
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…
Local cluster
Tempe, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of February 2015.
In context
- One of 116 documented reports from Tempe, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 282 sightings in 2015.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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