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CaseCone2013

Mesa, AZ, USA

Went outside to look at the stars and noticed a cone shaped object low in the sky, which the streamers, it displayed immediately dissip

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-20
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
cone-over-mesa-az-2013-9b6bad
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Mesa, AZ reports filed in April 2013.

In context

  • Mesa, AZ shows up 237 times across the archive.
  • 235 reports came from Arizona in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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