CaseCircle2017

Superior, AZ, USA

I am former recon in the military. I was observing the sky and caught it on video. I'm huge skeptic. ((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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-19
Where
Superior, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.294, -111.096 · exact
Slug
circle-over-superior-az-2017-cb71d2
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…

In context

  • Superior, AZ shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 208 reports came from Arizona in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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