Phoenix, AZ, USA
Strange blue object hovering south of phx. Az
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-17
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-phoenix-az-2012-d2353f
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in March 2012.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 212 reports came from Arizona in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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