El Mirage, AZ, USA
Around 11:46 PM when I was staring up in the sky and noticed 2 circle li ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-25
- Where
- El Mirage, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.613, -112.325 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-el-mirage-az-2016-2ba925
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…
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from El Mirage, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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