CaseCone2008

Phoenix, AZ, USA

It happen so fast, it makes one wonder?

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-30
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
Seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
cone-over-phoenix-az-2008-7b0d38
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in March 2008.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
  • 178 reports came from Arizona in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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