Anyone else catch that triangular craft over Phoenix last Tuesday around 11pm?

Not based in Phoenix myself - I'm over in Salisbury, UK - but I'm genuinely curious about a few specifics here, as I've been cross-referencing similar triangular craft reports for a while now.

When you say triangular, are we talking a rigid, defined silhouette with lights at each vertex, or more of a perceived triangle formed by a loose formation of separate lights? That distinction keeps coming up in these reports and it matters quite a bit for ruling out conventional explanations.

A few other things I'd love to know:

Speed and movement - was it steady and slow, or did it make any abrupt directional changes?, Sound - any engine noise, or completely silent?, Light behaviour - static white/amber lights, or any pulsing or colour shifting?

I ask because I've been building a comparison database of craft descriptions using NUFORC and MUFON submissions, and the Phoenix area has a disproportionate number of low-altitude triangular craft reports going back decades, obviously dating to the '97 event. Tuesday's timing is interesting too - there were a couple of similar reports filed around the same window from the southwest US that I spotted on NUFORC this week.

Did anyone else on the ground witness it with you, or were you solo? Corroborating witnesses really tighten up the report quality if you're thinking of filing officially. Worth doing even now - the detail tends to fade faster than people expect.

@clint_mitchell Interesting cross-referencing work. From Roswell I track triangular UAP reports obsessively, and the Phoenix corridor has a remarkably consistent profile - silent or near-silent flight, three white vertices with a central red or amber light, low-altitude passes typically between 500–2,000 feet AGL.

What's particularly compelling is the temporal clustering pattern. Tuesday's report fits a 6–8 week recurrence cycle I've been documenting since 2019 using a combination of ADS-B Exchange data and my own Yukon Ranger NV monocular sweeps.

For your cross-referencing, I'd strongly recommend pulling MUFON case files specifically tagged with "TR-3B profile". For the Southwest corridor - there's a distinct navigational signature where craft perform that characteristic silent hover-then-accelerate manoeuvre.

What specific parameters are you comparing across sightings? Trajectory bearing, altitude estimation, duration? That would help correlate with my existing dataset considerably.

@clint_mitchell Another Brit on here - good to see. Salisbury's decent territory for strange aerial activity actually, given what's nearby.

On the triangular craft question: the silent low-altitude reports are the ones worth separating out from the rest. Plenty of triangles turn out to be conventional aircraft in unusual lighting conditions, but the genuinely silent ones at low altitude are a different matter entirely.

What's your cross-referencing methodology? Are you pulling from NUFORC submissions or building your own database? Curious whether you're filtering by altitude estimates or just geometry.

Also - what drew you to triangular craft specifically over other UAP shapes? There's a reason researchers keep circling back to that particular configuration and it's worth understanding your angle before everyone piles in with their pet theories.

Stick around, plenty of decent researchers on here worth talking to.

@clint_mitchell Worth noting that triangular craft reports cluster heavily around military installation corridors - Phoenix sits near Luke AFB, so there's always that variable to account for before jumping to conclusions.

That said, the flight characteristic data is what I'd want. Specifically:

Silent or audible?, Estimated altitude (even rough), Any white lights at vertices, red centre?

The vertex-light configuration keeps coming up consistently across UK and US reports. I've been cataloguing crop circle formations near Wiltshire that show triangular geometry - possibly unrelated, possibly not.

@FreddieWhite50 is right that Salisbury's interesting territory. The proximity to Boscombe Down means you can't rule out black project aircraft either.

Not dismissing anything here - just saying the data needs to be tight before cross-referencing becomes meaningful. Loose reports just muddy the pool for everyone doing proper analysis.

@clint_mitchell As someone who mostly lurks near Salisbury myself with a Zoom H5 pointed at the sky hoping for EVP, I can confirm the Wiltshire corridor does get interesting - though my recorder mostly just captures wind and my own disappointed sighing.

On the triangle specifics: the silent or near-silent characteristic is the detail that always separates these reports from conventional military craft to me - no engine noise matching the apparent size is a recurring thread across Phoenix, Belgium 1989, and countless UK sightings. Worth flagging in your cross-referencing whether Tuesday's witness noted any sound at all, because that single data point tends to be the most consistent anomaly across the serious cases.