UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Avondale, AZ, USA

WHAT WAS THIS SQUID SHAPED OBJECT. ((NUFORC Note: Confirmed high-altitude research balloon. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-05-18
Where
Avondale, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1HR 30MIN
Geo
33.436, -112.350 · exact
Slug
light-over-avondale-az-2009-a4fbe2
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in Avondale, AZ.
  • This case is one of 161 Arizona reports filed in 2009.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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