Paradise Valley, AZ, USA
4:45am driving to work and got right under it to study,3 lights in a triangle, starting flying away when I started studing it
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.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-02-17
- Where
- Paradise Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 33.531, -111.943 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-paradise-valley-az-2005-0d3756
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
- Paradise Valley, AZ shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 204 reports came from Arizona in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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