CaseFormation2001
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Lights that seemed to flutter and flap like the wings of birds
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-11-16
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 min
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-phoenix-az-2001-75ccd7
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Arizona in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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