UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2016

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Looks like square lightning. ((NUFORC Note: Looks like a normal lightning bolt to us. PD))

Report quality: Moderate62/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-07-31
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-phoenix-az-2016-e77a09
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Phoenix, AZ logged 5 reports in the single month of July 2016.

In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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