Glendale, AZ, USA
Ospreys USMC trainings.
Report quality: High74/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 6 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-12
- Where
- Glendale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 33.539, -112.186 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-glendale-az-2016-438b90
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
Glendale, AZ logged 7 reports in the single month of November 2016.
In context
- One of 115 documented reports from Glendale, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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