CaseTriangle2020

Quartzite, AZ, USA

Two sets of three Red Lights in Western sky that appeared and disappeared 10-15° above the Horizon.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-21
Where
Quartzite, AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
39.021, -98.095 · fallback
Slug
triangle-over-quartzite-az-2020-38f0e2
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

  • Quartzite, AZ has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 224 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.2% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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