Phoenix, AZ, USA
3 strangely colored(bronze, copper, orange red) very bright, began very small, and grew to very large, disapeared, and then reappeared
Report quality: High73/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-20
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-phoenix-az-2008-95b6f8
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
7 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in November 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 178 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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