CaseDiamond2001

Mesa, AZ, USA

Amber diamond shape in Mesa night sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of a star or planet. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2001-02-21
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2 hours and still out the
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-mesa-az-2001-75c5d9

In context

  • Mesa, AZ has 237 sightings on file here.
  • 2001 brought 115 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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