CaseTriangle2004

Fountain Hills, AZ, USA

I was out and about walking my dog when all the sudden this triangle in the sky was up really high and id never seen any airplane shape

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-25
Where
Fountain Hills, AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.612, -111.717 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-fountain-hills-az-2004-c91ad0
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…

In context

  • Fountain Hills, AZ has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 200 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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