Phoenix, AZ, USA
Small sphere, moving very fast to the west, directly under my aircraft, 3,500 feet
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-08
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-phoenix-az-2005-075a3f
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
5 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in May 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 204 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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