Tucson, AZ, USA
Object flew across the sky and then straight up until no longer visible. Fast.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-16
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-tucson-az-2016-3f307c
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…
Local cluster
October 2016 was a busy month for Tucson, AZ: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 426 reports logged in Tucson, AZ.
- This case is one of 238 Arizona reports filed in 2016.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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