NUFORC Sighting 91654

Occurred: 2012-08-07 21:15 Local
Reported: 2012-08-09 23:18 Pacific
Duration: hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Surprise, AZ, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

We saw a perfect triangle shape ( 1 star top- 2 at base) of bright stars on August 7 & 8, 2012.

TriangleShape in the South West Sky of Surprise, AZ --August 7, 2012 We were staying in Surprise, AZ. We left a restaurant on Grand Avenue August 7th, 2012 in Surprise around 9:15 PM when we noticed in the north sky a triangle shape star consolation. We all questioned each other…What is that consolation? Did you ever see that before? We stood there for a while and watched it. It did not move, flash, change color or anything else. It consisted of three white stars at each tip of a perfectly formed triangle. One star on top and two stars on the bottom forming the triangle. The stars/lights seemed to be larger and brighter more so than other stars. We continued to watch it and then walked to the gas station next door to get some bottled water. We walked back to the van and took one more look at the triangle in the sky. It seemed to just hang there and not move. Dad said let’s go, I wanted to take a picture and he said no, we are going, let’s go. So, there was no picture taken. As we left, I felt that I made a big mistake not takin! g a picture. When we got back to the hotel, I said that I wanted to go and get a picture of the triangle. No one else wanted to go along so, I left to go back to the restaurant parking lot. I drove through a couple of blocks of strip malls back to the exact parking spot we were in about 30 minutes earlier. The triangle was gone, I stayed there for about 20 minutes hoping for it to reappear, but it did not. I took some pictures at that time and I captured only one star that looked to be in the same spot the triangle was in. I came back to the hotel and shared what I found a felt the need to report what we all had seen. The triangle was too perfect of a shape; it did not look like random stars making the shape.

TriangleShape in the South West Sky of Prescott, AZ -- August 8, 2012 The three of us traveled to Prescott and again saw the same shape in the south west sky. This time we took a video and some pictures. We continued to observe for two hours, and was still in the sky.

This was NOT Saturn, the moon and the star, Spica forming a triangle in the August skies.

Posted 2012-08-19