UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2017

Surprise, AZ, USA

Fixed flashing colored lights 9pm to 1am. Change position suddenly appear regularly. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly stars or planets?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-04-22
Where
Surprise, AZ, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 hours
Geo
33.631, -112.333 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-surprise-az-2017-033313
Wave

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  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Surprise, AZ shows up 80 times across the archive.
  • 208 reports came from Arizona in 2017.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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