Phoenix, AZ, USA
Large, bright, white sphere seen to the west over Phoenix from Ahwatukee. ((NUFORC Note: Possible high-altitude balloon. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-06-11
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-phoenix-az-2009-701cea
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
3 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in June 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 161 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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