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CaseFireball2016

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Gigantic fireball lit up the night sky just like it was daylight. E sky, N Phoenix. Huge contrail was left in the sky. ((meteor??))

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-06-02
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-phoenix-az-2016-e04b00
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

8 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in June 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 238 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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