CaseFireball2021
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Bright fireball object moving in sky
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-29
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-2021-3dea91
Wave
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…
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Arizona in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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