UFOMYST
CaseOther2008

Cottonwood, AZ, USA

((HOAX??)) We saw the object on the horizon of Mingus Mountain. The light was very bright and then pulsated.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-06-10
Where
Cottonwood, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
20minutes
Geo
34.739, -112.010 · exact
Slug
other-over-cottonwood-az-2008-b1920f
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

  • This is one of 30 reports logged in Cottonwood, AZ.
  • This case is one of 178 Arizona reports filed in 2008.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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