UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ, USA

Odd craft in broad daylight, amidst departing airliners

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-26
Where
Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
33.509, -111.899 · exact
Slug
other-over-scottsdale-phoenix-az-2005-3eb7b7
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 →

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 204 sightings in 2005.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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