UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Mesa, AZ, USA

A small dark purple quad-thruster craft hovering 200-300 feet in the sky. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-10
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mesa-az-1997-450bae
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Mesa, AZ has 237 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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