CaseTriangle2012

Surprise, AZ, USA

Two craft with bright orange lights and no sound.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-21
Where
Surprise, AZ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.631, -112.333 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-surprise-az-2012-7b7742
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

  • 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 days

Report

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