CaseEgg2016
Mesa, AZ, USA
Metallic object flashing in sky.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-31
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-mesa-az-2016-d77f5f
Wave
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…
In context
- One of 237 documented reports from Mesa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
- Egg sightings ran at 0.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.