Mesa, AZ, USA
At 6:40 pm I went to let the out side in the back yard when I got the back side of the I could not miss look Up in the sky to see a re
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-17
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mesa-az-2013-350565
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
November 2013 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 235 Arizona reports filed in 2013.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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