UFOMYST
CaseCigar2006

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Cigar shaped object over the McDowell Mountains

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-05-26
Where
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 min
Geo
33.509, -111.899 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-scottsdale-az-2006-9aee8c
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Scottsdale, AZ reports filed in May 2006.

In context

  • Scottsdale, AZ shows up 172 times across the archive.
  • 141 reports came from Arizona in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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