Surprise, AZ, USA
just a black triangle flying fast and silent. southeast direction. from my front yard. just flew into a cloud and never return
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-11
- Where
- Surprise, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 25 sec
- Geo
- 33.631, -112.333 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-surprise-az-2005-e297f8
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
- Surprise, AZ has 80 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 204 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.