Phoenix, AZ, USA
Reddish fireball
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-02-03
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-2005-88981d
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in February 2005.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 204 reports came from Arizona in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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