UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Mesa, AZ, USA

Bright red light floating almost overhead in western Mesa, AZ - just to the SE a little. Floated/moved slowly until it vanished.

Report quality: High81/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-01-28
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
light-over-mesa-az-2005-eb658c
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

January 2005 was a busy month for Mesa, AZ: 6 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 237 reports logged in Mesa, AZ.
  • This case is one of 204 Arizona reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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