UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2014

Mesa, AZ, USA

I was just let my dogs out to the backyard. And walk around the corner and looked up behind the house and saw orange glowing light movi

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-03-09
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-mesa-az-2014-3f0861
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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Mesa, AZ reports filed in March 2014.

In context

  • Mesa, AZ shows up 237 times across the archive.
  • 302 reports came from Arizona in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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