Mesa, AZ, USA
Appeared round from the ground, but unusually bright. Upon observation through binoculars it appeared more diamond shaped.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-02
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mesa-az-2013-5149e9
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
4 reports came out of Mesa, AZ in September 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Mesa, AZ has 237 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 235 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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