CaseFlash1998
Mesa, AZ, USA
Bright blue-white flash on or near the northern horizon. It flared up and then was gone.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-14
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-mesa-az-1998-1bece6
In context
- Mesa, AZ shows up 237 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from Arizona in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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