UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1997

Mesa, AZ, USA

UPDATE TO 2/6/97 MESA, AZ SIGHTING ALREADY POSTED TO NUFORC WEBSITE

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 (67 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-f7bac0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Mesa, AZ reports filed in February 1997.

In context

  • Mesa, AZ shows up 237 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from Arizona in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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