UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Phoenix (40 mi S. of), AZ, USA

6 Birght lights similiar to the "Phoenix lights" of 1997, danced across the desert sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-09-23
Where
Phoenix (40 mi S. of), AZ, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
5 sec intervals
Geo
33.448, -112.074 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-phoenix-40-mi-s-of-az-2004-8360fc
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Phoenix (40 mi S. of), AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 200 sightings in 2004.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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