UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Phoenix, AZ, USA

The object was heading south towards central Phoenix. It was glowing bright red. And only four stores high in the air. When the object

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-28
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-phoenix-az-2018-3cc669
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…

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In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 92 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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