Peoria, AZ, USA
Very bright in the sky through clouds glowing haze around it hard to make out. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- Peoria, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.581, -112.237 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-peoria-az-2015-70df6a
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
- Peoria, AZ shows up 77 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from Arizona in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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