Gilbert, AZ, USA
Red and orange flying objects seem in the south sky moving in clusters and disappeared
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-12
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.353, -111.789 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-gilbert-az-2015-ca5684
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
- Gilbert, AZ shows up 146 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from Arizona in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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