UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Phoenix, AZ, USA

I noticed a small, white, circular object move a short distance in the sky, then all of a sudden disappear.

Report quality: Moderate57/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-05-24
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
circle-over-phoenix-az-2009-855a56
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Phoenix, AZ logged 4 reports in the single month of May 2009.

In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 161 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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