CaseFireball2021

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Orange fireball moving East to West

Report quality: Moderate68/100

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 (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-12-02
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-phoenix-az-2021-671edd
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2021 was a busy month for Phoenix, AZ: 6 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
  • This case is one of 128 Arizona reports filed in 2021.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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