Mesa, AZ, USA
Lights over Phoenix again& again.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-28
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 min.
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mesa-az-2004-8e0792
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
Mesa, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2004.
In context
- One of 237 documented reports from Mesa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 200 sightings in 2004.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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