Phoenix, AZ, USA
2 large silver craft, rotating above us. Changed shape rapidly, and disapered into the darkness in a burst of light.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-22
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-phoenix-az-1978-ada4cb
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In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 10 reports from Arizona.
- The 1970s skewed 1% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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