CaseSphere2013

Tucson, AZ, USA

Streaked in like a meteor only to slow down and break into 5-6 orbs, stop, hover 3 sec, dance up and down in the sky

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-03-14
Where
Tucson, AZ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
32.222, -110.926 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-tucson-az-2013-4b3f1a
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

  • This is one of 426 reports logged in Tucson, AZ.
  • This case is one of 235 Arizona reports filed in 2013.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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