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CaseOther2017

Tempe, AZ, USA

Unusual military helicopter activity over east Phoenix, AZ, valley. 3-16-17. 8:12 pm. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 3000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-03-16
Where
Tempe, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
50 minutes
Geo
33.415, -111.909 · exact
Slug
other-over-tempe-az-2017-3a658f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2017

    AZ flap 2017-03

    AZ, USA

    12 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 2017 peak months 3–3; top shape circle

    12 reportsOpen wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Tempe, AZ in March 2017 alone — a local cluster.

Flap

AZ flap 2017-03

Logged as part of the AZ flap 2017-03, a 12-report space-time cluster.

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In context

  • Tempe, AZ has 116 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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