Cane Beds, AZ, USA
A white sphere hovering over the NW Arizona area. At first it appeared to be a large balloon but it hovered for far too long.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-31
- Where
- Cane Beds, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.946, -112.894 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-cane-beds-az-2014-b263d6
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 1 reports logged in Cane Beds, AZ.
- This case is one of 302 Arizona reports filed in 2014.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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