CaseUnknown2008

Arizona (above; in-flight), AZ, USA

Black "condensation" trail stayed at pace with jet for several minutes and then shot forward and all dissipated.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-02-08
Where
Arizona (above; in-flight), AZ, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
4 or 5 minutes
Geo
32.756, -111.671 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-arizona-above-in-flight-az-2008-01716e
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 2 reports logged in Arizona (above; in-flight), AZ.
  • This case is one of 178 Arizona reports filed in 2008.

Report

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