Phoenix, AZ, USA
The object was cigar/pencil shaped, and was glowing yellow with what appeared to be a line of discrete solid yellow lights.
Report quality: High75/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-02
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-phoenix-az-2021-acff02
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
Phoenix, AZ logged 6 reports in the single month of December 2021.
In context
- One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 128 sightings in 2021.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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