CaseCylinder1998
Phoenix, AZ, USA
While working security I seen a object enter earths atmosphere, then glide over mountains east of Phoenix.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-06
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-phoenix-az-1998-f274b8
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in December 1998.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from Arizona in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.4% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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