CaseFireball2020
Tonopah, AZ, USA
Tonopah Arizona lights.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-23
- Where
- Tonopah, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.494, -112.937 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tonopah-az-2020-56bbd0
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Tonopah, AZ shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 224 reports came from Arizona in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.