Mesa, AZ, USA
STATIONARY OBJECT, RED, GREEN LIGHTS, NOW AND THEN ((NUFORC Note: Venus or Sirius. PD))
Report quality: Low26/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-05-09
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- HOUR
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mesa-az-2004-967c4e
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
May 2004 was a busy month for Mesa, AZ: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 237 reports logged in Mesa, AZ.
- This case is one of 200 Arizona reports filed in 2004.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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