Phoenix, AZ, USA
Flying corkscrews.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-04
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-phoenix-az-2017-9d7ffe
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
Phoenix, AZ logged 6 reports in the single month of May 2017.
In context
- One of 741 documented reports from Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 208 sightings in 2017.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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