UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

Prescott Valley, AZ, USA

At 2:10 AM i was in my back yard and saw an orange glow through my neighbors trees. It was going up (or approaching from the distance)

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-30
Where
Prescott Valley, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
34.610, -112.316 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-prescott-valley-az-2005-cf515e
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

  • Prescott Valley, AZ shows up 53 times across the archive.
  • 204 reports came from Arizona in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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