Anthem, AZ, USA
Changing red, green sphere, blinking out, moving around mtn., S end of Anthem, between midnight and dawn. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?))
Report quality: Low35/100
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 (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-02-20
- Where
- Anthem, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 hours?
- Geo
- 33.867, -112.147 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-anthem-az-2009-7d56d4
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
- This is one of 19 reports logged in Anthem, AZ.
- This case is one of 161 Arizona reports filed in 2009.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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