UFOMYST
CaseFireball2019

Safford, AZ, USA

Bright orange flash ball then just faded away. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-07-09
Where
Safford, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
32.834, -109.708 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-safford-az-2019-26929e
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

  • Safford, AZ shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 231 reports came from Arizona in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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