Maricopa, AZ, USA
I was driving back to work after lunch and saw an object in the sky. It was white on the top and grey color on the bottom. It was like
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-28
- Where
- Maricopa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.058, -112.048 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-maricopa-az-2004-c43b59
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 70 reports logged in Maricopa, AZ.
- This case is one of 200 Arizona reports filed in 2004.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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