Tempe, AZ, USA
Six orange/red orbs one by one flew over Tempe AZ new years eve 2020 over 18 min from low altitude to disappearing into space
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: 1080s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-01
- Where
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 18 Minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.909 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-tempe-az-2021-7bd387
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…
In context
- Tempe, AZ shows up 116 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Arizona in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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