McNary/Sunrise Ski Resort (between), AZ, USA
3 white lights in triangle formation moving sw to ne (poss NOSS sats but shape /details differ from other reports)
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-10
- Where
- McNary/Sunrise Ski Resort (between), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.074, -109.857 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-mcnary-sunrise-ski-resort-between-az-2004-56814d
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
- McNary/Sunrise Ski Resort (between), AZ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 200 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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