Golden Valley, AZ, USA
A cone shaped object South East of my house in Golden Valley, AZ. ((NUFORC Note: Confirmed high-altitude research balloon. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-05-18
- Where
- Golden Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30 Min
- Geo
- 35.223, -114.223 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-golden-valley-az-2009-4b33db
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
- Golden Valley, AZ has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 161 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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