UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

Gila Bend, AZ, USA

Driving West on the I-10 Freeway moments from entering I-8, as the sun set, I gained sight of the crescent Moon and slightly North West

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-05-15
Where
Gila Bend, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 min
Geo
32.948, -112.717 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-gila-bend-az-2010-f01856
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

  • One of 28 documented reports from Gila Bend, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 122 sightings in 2010.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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