UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Orange round sphere.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-05-04
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
circle-over-phoenix-az-2017-f656cd
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

6 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in May 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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