21-minutes, flight time, north of Phoenix, AZ, USA
At 35,700’, I saw a large, falling object w/2 black contrails, suddenly nose-dive, self-correct, divert course and vanish in 60 secs.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-16
- Where
- 21-minutes, flight time, north of Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-21-minutes-flight-time-north-of-phoenix-az-2022-c2cd76
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
- 21-minutes, flight time, north of Phoenix, AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from Arizona in 2022.
Report
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