CaseChevron1997
Mesa, AZ, USA
UFO over Phoenix...over my back yard. March 1997
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-17
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 5 secs
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-mesa-az-1997-8422f5
Wave
Part of a wave
AZ flap 1997-03
AZ, USA
47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle
Flap
AZ flap 1997-03
This report belongs to the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Mesa, AZ shows up 237 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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