UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Buckeye, AZ, USA

Sighted south of palo verde power plant in the buckeye hills area. Orange glowing balls all flying about the same hieght above grou

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-08-03
Where
Buckeye, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
33.370, -112.584 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-buckeye-az-2021-1a7a4e
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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In context

  • One of 57 documented reports from Buckeye, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 128 sightings in 2021.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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