Surprise, AZ, USA
I couldn't sleep so I went outside to smoke. Noticing that the clouds appeared to be much brighter than usual,I walked into the yard to
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 2340s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-07
- Where
- Surprise, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 38- 40+ minutes
- Geo
- 33.631, -112.333 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-surprise-az-2006-2d6df1
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
- This is one of 80 reports logged in Surprise, AZ.
- This case is one of 141 Arizona reports filed in 2006.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.