CaseFormation2002
Phoenix, AZ, USA
We were driving in the desert eastward on hwy 8 about 25 miles east of Phoenix, AZ at approx. 1am. I looked out the passenger side win
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-06-15
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-phoenix-az-2002-d0ae16
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in June 2002.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 123 reports came from Arizona in 2002.
- 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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