Surprise, AZ, USA
UFO enters atmosphere, turns into fireball, exits fireball.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-13
- Where
- Surprise, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- few seconds
- Geo
- 33.631, -112.333 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-surprise-az-2012-aab464
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.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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