UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Mesa, AZ, USA

A light in the sky that emitted whitish beam with a tint. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch at 5:27 p.m. (Pacific). PD))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-22
Where
Mesa, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
0:30
Geo
33.422, -111.823 · exact
Slug
light-over-mesa-az-2017-e8e0e0
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Mesa, AZ in December 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Mesa, AZ has 237 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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