Phoenix, AZ, USA
A large fireball traveling NW at a very high rate of speed. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))
Report quality: Low38/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-12-08
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-2014-a77690
Part of a wave
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U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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Local cluster
December 2014 was a busy month for Phoenix, AZ: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
- This case is one of 302 Arizona reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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