CaseFlash2015

Mesa, AZ, USA

((HOAX??)) Bright green light shaped like a done lit up the sky for about 10 seconds. House lights dimmed for a few seconds.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-03-13
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
flash-over-mesa-az-2015-d0a858
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

March 2015 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 282 Arizona reports filed in 2015.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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