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CaseTeardrop2011

Phoenix, AZ, USA

I noticed a very bright Blue-Green (like an acetylene flame) Tear shaped light coming towards the raised highway

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-14
Where
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-phoenix-az-2011-88cab1
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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In context

  • Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
  • 163 reports came from Arizona in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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