UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Tempe, AZ, USA

Fireballs turn into jelly-saucers

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-04
Where
Tempe, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
33.415, -111.909 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tempe-az-2012-9b8812
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Tempe, AZ shows up 116 times across the archive.
  • 212 reports came from Arizona in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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