Arizona (above; in flight), AZ, USA
Mysterious shaped form flying beside SWA flt 612 over Northern AZ @ 4:05 PM PDT - alttitude 35,000 - 40,000 ft
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 (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-03-12
- Where
- Arizona (above; in flight), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- <10 seconds
- Geo
- 32.756, -111.671 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-arizona-above-in-flight-az-2018-a80133
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Arizona (above; in flight), AZ.
- This case is one of 92 Arizona reports filed in 2018.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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