UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Mesa, AZ, USA

Huge silver cigar shaped craft glides low and slow over a populated suburban area in Mesa Az followed closely by a military fighter air

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-15
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-mesa-az-1978-a50a90
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In context

  • Mesa, AZ has 237 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 10 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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