Quartzite, AZ, USA
large circular craftlike" outline "of a black smokelike substance, in the sky.(Many times larger than a plane)
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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 (110 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-20
- Where
- Quartzite, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10min.approx.
- Geo
- 39.021, -98.095 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-quartzite-az-2004-ef04f6
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
- Quartzite, AZ shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 200 reports came from Arizona in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.