UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Mesa, AZ, USA

Very bright light in north eastern sky. Larger then stars and smaller then moon. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star. PD))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-09-02
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Hours
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mesa-az-2013-131e5d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2013 was a busy month for Mesa, AZ: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 237 reports logged in Mesa, AZ.
  • This case is one of 235 Arizona reports filed in 2013.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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