CaseLight2005

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Phoenix Lights again over North Phoenix both yellowish orange and red near Deer Valley Airport.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-05-18
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 min.
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
light-over-phoenix-az-2005-f9a740
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Phoenix, AZ logged 5 reports in the single month of May 2005.

In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 204 sightings in 2005.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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