CaseSphere2017
Mesa, AZ, USA
Witnessed 2 orange orbs being followed by a large helicopter like a Blackhawk. Flew directly overhead at approximately 500ft northbound
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-13
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mesa-az-2017-1cd698
Wave
Part of a wave
AZ flap 2017-03
AZ, USA
12 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 2017 peak months 3–3; top shape circle
Flap
AZ flap 2017-03
One of 12 sightings that make up the AZ flap 2017-03.
Explore this area →In context
- This is one of 237 reports logged in Mesa, AZ.
- This case is one of 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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