Mesa, AZ, USA
Rectangular object with no lights or sound heading from south to north over mesa night sky
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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 (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-12
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-mesa-az-2015-8e0ef5
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
Mesa, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2015.
In context
- One of 237 documented reports from Mesa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 282 sightings in 2015.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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