UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Phoenix (75 miles west of), AZ, USA

A light the shape and size of the moon moving East to West across the Suther sky about 5 to 10 degrees above horizon in the AZ desert

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-16
Where
Phoenix (75 miles west of), AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Apx 2 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
circle-over-phoenix-75-miles-west-of-az-2004-4fc982
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Phoenix (75 miles west of), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 200 reports came from Arizona in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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