UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Tucson, AZ, USA

Large sighting of orange lights moving and pulsating

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-19
Where
Tucson, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.222, -110.926 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tucson-az-2021-dc0c2d
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

  • Tucson, AZ shows up 426 times across the archive.
  • 128 reports came from Arizona in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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