Tucson, AZ, USA
Hundreds of small flickering white lighted objects floating quickly across the sky.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-07
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-tucson-az-2016-479e29
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Tucson, AZ reports filed in July 2016.
In context
- Tucson, AZ shows up 426 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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