Surprise, AZ, USA
It consisted of three white stars at each tip of a perfectly formed triangle in a star lit sky.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-07
- Where
- Surprise, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15:00 minum
- Geo
- 33.631, -112.333 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-surprise-az-2012-536542
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…
Local cluster
Surprise, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2012.
In context
- One of 80 documented reports from Surprise, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 212 sightings in 2012.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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