CaseOther2016
Surprise, AZ, USA
Burning plane falls from sky over LAFB in Az.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-01
- Where
- Surprise, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.631, -112.333 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-surprise-az-2016-85d405
Wave
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
- Surprise, AZ has 80 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 238 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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