UFOMYST
CaseFormation2008

Phoenix, AZ, USA

3 orange lights in formation over the Estrella mountain range.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-17
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
formation-over-phoenix-az-2008-cdb9f6
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in June 2008.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
  • 178 reports came from Arizona in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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