CaseCircle2017
Phoenix, AZ, USA
We saw 4 orbs moving away and at each other.the very strange thing was a plane circling around the area. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-15
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-phoenix-az-2017-792dbc
Wave
Part of a wave
AZ flap 2017-03
AZ, USA
12 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 2017 peak months 3–3; top shape circle
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in March 2017.
Flap
AZ flap 2017-03
This report belongs to the AZ flap 2017-03 — 12 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 208 reports came from Arizona in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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