CaseCircle2019

Phoenix, AZ, USA

5 bright lights hovering in the sky in a circle

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-03
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
circle-over-phoenix-az-2019-2375a0
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

October 2019 was a busy month for Phoenix, AZ: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
  • This case is one of 231 Arizona reports filed in 2019.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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