Phoenix, AZ, USA
We were looking towards east and seen in the sky a object that was spinning or lights were spinning. ((NUFORC Note: Star? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-12-09
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-phoenix-az-2016-4945f6
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in December 2016.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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