UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

El Mirage, AZ, USA

So a strong light and got my camera I start filming try to focus the lens and I knew it was something out of the normal after checking

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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 (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-08
Where
El Mirage, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 or 4 minutes
Geo
33.613, -112.325 · exact
Slug
circle-over-el-mirage-az-2012-7ea7c1
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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In context

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in El Mirage, AZ.
  • This case is one of 212 Arizona reports filed in 2012.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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