Phoenix, AZ, USA
Took a phone picture out of window while driving on highway
Report quality: High74/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-03
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 -3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-phoenix-az-2021-8676b2
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
6 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in December 2021 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 128 reports from Arizona.
- The 2020s skewed 1.8% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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