Mesa, AZ, USA
Bright light with trailing aura moving across the sky.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-22
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mesa-az-2017-5768d6
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…
Local cluster
December 2017 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 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
- 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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