Mesa, AZ, USA
Brilliantly glowing object could move directionally anyway, silent and houvered in a circular pattern and was a circular shape.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-06
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30-60 sec
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mesa-az-2007-0cf624
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
January 2007 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 142 Arizona reports filed in 2007.
- 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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