UFOMYST
CaseChevron2009

Tucson, AZ, USA

Strobing chevron-shaped ' ((NUFORC Note: Probable star sighting, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (25 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-06-22
Where
Tucson, AZ, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
30 min
Geo
32.222, -110.926 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-tucson-az-2009-4503c5
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Tucson, AZ in June 2009 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 161 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.2% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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