UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

not sure, AZ, USA

I photographed a hot air balloon thru my vehicle's windshield. A few days later I enlarged photo for a close up view.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (117 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-01
Where
not sure, AZ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
—
Slug
oval-over-not-sure-az-2017-ca1b2c
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 1 reports logged in not sure, AZ.
  • This case is one of 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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