UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2013

Cave Creek, AZ, USA

Flash, followed by falling teardrop ship, with fading redish trail.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 105s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-13
Where
Cave Creek, AZ, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 min 45 seconds
Geo
33.833, -111.951 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-cave-creek-az-2013-7b96cc
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Cave Creek, AZ has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 235 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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