UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Bright light in the night sky. Disappears within about every 30 min returns in intervals. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 259200s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (89 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
2016-12-19
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 days
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
circle-over-phoenix-az-2016-f3585a
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 →
Local cluster

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.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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