Phoenix, AZ, USA
single large fireball hovered
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-28
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30+mins
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-2004-3c3bfd
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 3 reports in the single month of January 2004.
In context
- One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 200 sightings in 2004.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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