Mesa, AZ, USA
I was walking back to a residence from a fast-food place on Mesa Drive and Southern, and as I passed a line of two story townhomes, fro
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-01
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mesa-az-2020-7d0955
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Mesa, AZ in August 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Mesa, AZ has 237 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 224 reports from Arizona.
- The 2020s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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