UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Phoenix, AZ, USA

9 to 12 orbs first believed to be lanterns in the northern facing sky of Phoenix, Az.They were flying in a formation heading north

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-05
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-phoenix-az-2020-e3bbd6
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in February 2020.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
  • 224 reports came from Arizona in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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