Phoenix, AZ, USA
Large diamond shaped craft with 4 red lights, one in each corner, hovered for approx 15 minutes then moved away and out of site.
Report quality: High89/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-21
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-phoenix-az-2008-42fa0a
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…
Local cluster
Phoenix, AZ logged 8 reports in the single month of April 2008.
In context
- One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 178 sightings in 2008.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.4%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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