Mesa, AZ, USA
Fast moving glowing object with glowing gas plume remaining for several minutes flew over Phoenix after sundown heading north to south.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-22
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-mesa-az-2017-d5cf68
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 4 reports in the single month of December 2017.
In context
- One of 237 documented reports from Mesa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 208 sightings in 2017.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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