CaseTriangle1997
Mesa (at Mesa Community College), AZ, USA
LARGE TRIANGULAR OBJECT WITH 5 DIM AMBER LIGHTS (ONE IN EACH CORNER AND 2 MORE NEAR FRONT) MOVED SLOWLY NW TO S-SW WITH NO NOISE.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-13
- Where
- Mesa (at Mesa Community College), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2-3 MINUTES
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mesa-at-mesa-community-college-az-1997-b7ff1b
Wave
Part of a wave
AZ flap 1997-03
AZ, USA
47 sightings in geohash 9tbq (AZ) during 1997 peak months 3–3; top shape triangle
Flap
AZ flap 1997-03
This report belongs to the AZ flap 1997-03 — 47 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- Mesa (at Mesa Community College), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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