UFOMYST
CaseCircle2006

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Four lights - looked like the sun.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2006-05-27
Where
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
33.509, -111.899 · exact
Slug
circle-over-scottsdale-az-2006-f09a26
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Scottsdale, AZ in May 2006 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Scottsdale, AZ has 172 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 141 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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