UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Mesa, AZ, USA

This was not a balloon, known aircraft,spotlight,,flair ,star, or planet. What in our world was it?

Report quality: High77/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-01-28
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
other-over-mesa-az-2005-1e58c0
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

Mesa, AZ logged 6 reports in the single month of January 2005.

In context

  • One of 237 documented reports from Mesa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 204 sightings in 2005.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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