Mesa, AZ, USA
3 red triangle lights over mesa arizona moving at a slow rate of speed.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-28
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mesa-az-2005-38fd76
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
January 2005 was a busy month for Mesa, AZ: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 237 reports logged in Mesa, AZ.
- This case is one of 204 Arizona reports filed in 2005.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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