East Mesa, AZ, USA
Round ball changing colors from red ,blue, green, hard to tell other colors. Did see large passenger plane fly just above it.. (??)
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-16
- Where
- East Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.658 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-east-mesa-az-2015-87fea4
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- East Mesa, AZ has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 282 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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