Tucson, AZ, USA
3 bright white looking metallic objects hovering over Tucson.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-20
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-tucson-az-2008-859b03
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Tucson, AZ in May 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Tucson, AZ has 426 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 178 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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