MESA, AZ, USA
Testing long range focus of 300 mm Nikon lens at high flying commercial airship, checking result found UFO near aircraft
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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 (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-17
- Where
- MESA, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- UFO next to aircraft pic
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-mesa-az-2021-65547b
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
- One of 237 documented reports from MESA, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 128 sightings in 2021.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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