Gilbert, AZ, USA
10 objects, pulsating red flame and yellow over Gilbert, Az. March 9, 2013
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-09
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.353, -111.789 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-gilbert-az-2013-f18e39
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
- Gilbert, AZ has 146 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 235 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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