PHOENIX, AZ, USA
low flying circular red shapes were seen during the fireworks by Tempe Town lake at midnight. one at a time the objects appeared one af
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-01
- Where
- PHOENIX, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 8 min
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-phoenix-az-2021-67be63
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…
In context
- PHOENIX, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 128 reports from Arizona.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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