UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Benson, AZ, USA

Received a phone call from a friend of 30 years. I stepped outside to take the call. I sat on the stacked bricks that delineated one si

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-30
Where
Benson, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
31.968, -110.295 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-benson-az-2011-88b026
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 13 documented reports from Benson, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 163 sightings in 2011.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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