Phoenix, AZ, USA
Two objects in a bright orange teardrop shape that appeared to be on fire were seen in the northwestern sky.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-23
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-phoenix-az-2010-ef9a16
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
5 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in October 2010 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 122 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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