Phoenix, AZ, USA
At about 19:15 hrs. this evening, walking dog, noticed 2 bright red objects in W sky heading W; one was following the other.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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- Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-02
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-phoenix-az-2016-6b4d59
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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 — 5 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in January 2016.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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