CaseOther2008

Phoenix, AZ, USA

12/19/08 Phoenix AZ curved shape 2 minutes It was just sitting still in the sky lights coming down,then gone from rear view

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-19
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
other-over-phoenix-az-2008-6983dd
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…

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 178 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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