UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Gila Bend- Yuma?, AZ, USA

Very large object hoovers in sky for hour or so.. HUGH object. ((NUFORC Note: Venus??))

Report quality: Low39/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-05-19
Where
Gila Bend- Yuma?, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
1 1/2" hour
Geo
—
Slug
other-over-gila-bend-yuma-az-2004-bb8e52
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

  • Gila Bend- Yuma?, AZ has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 200 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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