Sahuarita, AZ, USA
Saw a bright green light shaped in a sideways oval shape move very slow in a straight line. The light seemed to scan the desert. It was
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-23
- Where
- Sahuarita, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 11 minutes
- Geo
- 31.958, -110.956 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sahuarita-az-2015-4686e4
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
- Sahuarita, AZ shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from Arizona in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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