CaseCircle2017
Surprise, AZ, USA
Very strange looking. Lots of dogs were barking, the whole time.
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-05
- Where
- Surprise, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1
- Geo
- 33.631, -112.333 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-surprise-az-2017-ea0156
Wave
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 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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