Phoenix, AZ, USA
In Aug. 1978 I awoke around midnight standing in front of my open window in by bedroom. There was a bright flash and I saw a creature.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-01
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-phoenix-az-1978-a52212
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In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Arizona in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 0.5% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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