CaseDiamond2009
Mesa, AZ, USA
Flying object seen in Mesa. ((NUFORC Note: Confirmed high-altitude research balloon. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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- Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (27 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
- 2009-05-18
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-mesa-az-2009-211f67
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In context
- Mesa, AZ shows up 237 times across the archive.
- 161 reports came from Arizona in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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