CaseCircle2020
Phoenix, CA, USA
Nine lights moving eastbound (before dimming) across Phoenix sky.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-11-26
- Where
- Phoenix, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- About 8 mins
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-phoenix-ca-2020-6cb4da
Wave
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Phoenix, CA.
- This case is one of 622 California reports filed in 2020.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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