CaseFireball1999
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phoenix police dept. helicopters (2) and crew observe orange fireball that circles their craft. Report at first denied by PPD then ackn
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-12
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes?
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-1999-0d994a
Local cluster
Local cluster
Phoenix, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of October 1999.
In context
- One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 96 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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