East Mesa, AZ, USA
A bright flashing white light was seen floating high up overhead in the Southern sky that seemed to fall to the ground in 30 min..
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-24
- Where
- East Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.658 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-east-mesa-az-2015-f045ca
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in East Mesa, AZ.
- This case is one of 282 Arizona reports filed in 2015.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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