UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Casa Grande, AZ, USA

I was driving from Tucson to Chandler for work this morning, when all of a sudden, this light lit up the sky. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-04
Where
Casa Grande, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1.83 seconds
Geo
32.880, -111.757 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-casa-grande-az-2018-a3df4f
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…

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In context

  • Casa Grande, AZ shows up 37 times across the archive.
  • 92 reports came from Arizona in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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