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
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
- 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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