UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

New River, AZ, USA

I just saw 2-3 looked like stars, not a plane, in the west sky. The one top left "joined" the one bottom right.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-30
Where
New River, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
33.916, -112.136 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-new-river-az-2016-54255c
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 →

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from New River, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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