Phoenix, AZ, USA
Bright orange light, almost like a fireball over Phoenix on 1/15/05-Second sighting
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-15
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20-25 min
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-2005-5a963e
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…
Local cluster
January 2005 was a busy month for Phoenix, AZ: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
- This case is one of 204 Arizona reports filed in 2005.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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