CaseOval2006

Maricopa, AZ, USA

silver oblong object observe in east/southeastern sky at 10:30 AM for apprx 5 seconds. was gone before anyone of four friend could see

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-11-16
Where
Maricopa, AZ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 secs
Geo
33.058, -112.048 · exact
Slug
oval-over-maricopa-az-2006-34debe
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…

In context

  • Maricopa, AZ has 70 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 141 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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