Glendale, AZ, USA
On 1/18/21 at approx 23:15 hours in Glendale, AZ, I was driving home from work when I noticed a large object hovering in front of me to
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-18
- Where
- Glendale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30-60 seconds
- Geo
- 33.539, -112.186 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-glendale-az-2021-125ab3
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
- Glendale, AZ shows up 115 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Arizona in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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