PHONEX, AZ, USA
It was circular and white with a huge fanned out tail of bright, bright white. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-12-21
- Where
- PHONEX, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-phonex-az-2017-14cc83
Part of a wave
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
- PHONEX, AZ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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