Mesa, AZ, USA
In Mesa, AZ, I clearly saw a large triangular ship, flying slowly---it turned / flew away at terrific speed.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-06
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mesa-az-1997-455ecf
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
February 1997 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 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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