UFOMYST
CaseOval2005

Phoenix, AZ, USA

I saw an object that looked much like one of those silver baloons filled with helium sold in grocery stores. In fact, that is what I th

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-10
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
45 sec
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
oval-over-phoenix-az-2005-d719f1
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

6 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in April 2005 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 204 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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