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
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
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 daysReport
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