CaseRectangle2002
Phoenix, AZ, USA
While sitting around the campfire, my son and I observed a rectangular object in the north east skies of northern Phoenix. This object
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-12
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- :08
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-phoenix-az-2002-b24fb5
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 123 reports came from Arizona in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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