CaseTeardrop2016
Mesa, AZ, USA
A craft over a house in East Mesa..
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-23
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1.30
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-mesa-az-2016-903e34
Wave
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 237 reports logged in Mesa, AZ.
- This case is one of 238 Arizona reports filed in 2016.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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