UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2020

Phoenix, AZ, USA

I went outside at 9 pm to take out trash. Right above me a little to the west I saw a strange orb of lights that seemed to change from

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-01-09
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-phoenix-az-2020-52c29c
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Phoenix, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2020.

In context

  • One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 224 sightings in 2020.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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