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Mesa, AZ
Arizona · Pinal County · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metro
Mesa is a major city in Arizona with a population of 507,478. Residents earn $78,779 per year, which is 5% above the national average.
3.2
/5.0
B
Good
507,478
Population
3,578/sq mi density
$78,779
Median Income
$39,586 per capita
$364,300
Home Value
$432,764 Zillow
$1,478
Median Rent
31.8% income on rent
74°F
Avg Temperature
348 sunny days/yr
377
Violent Crime/100K
1,869 property/100K
B
Overall
3.2 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
A
Economy
4.3 / 5.0
$78,779 median income, 3.0% unemployment
A
Affordability
4.1 / 5.0
$364,300 home value, $1,478/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
377 violent crimes/100K (1% below avg)
B+
Education
3.5 / 5.0
31.5% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
146
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Mines
15
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Historic Markers
2
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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UFO Sightings Near Mesa, AZ
146 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Mesa, AZ.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mesa, AZ | 2014 | I was just let my dogs out to the backyard. And walk around the corner and looked up behind the house and saw orange glowing light movi |
| Mesa, AZ | 2014 | Spinning disc shape with red,and blue lights. Changing direction rapidly and hovering for several seconds |
| Mesa, AZ | 2014 | Copper orange lights grow and disappear over East Mesa. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2014 | Three lights orange in color and wide spread. lights went out one at a time and then were gone. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2014 | 2 orange glowing orb hovering in the sky by the South 202 and McKellips |
| Mesa, AZ | 2014 | An object which was constantly changing shape moved very slowly across the sky. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Reddish orange orbs moving east to west, caught on video |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Formation of moving lights split off and hover. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Very bright light in north eastern sky. Larger then stars and smaller then moon. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star. PD)) |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Appeared round from the ground, but unusually bright. Upon observation through binoculars it appeared more diamond shaped. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Went outside to look at the stars and noticed a cone shaped object low in the sky, which the streamers, it displayed immediately dissip |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | 3 orange lights lined up, went to grab my phone came back and they were gone. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Several yellow-orange lights in v formation break apart and zigzag until blinking out one by one |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Really blue bright looking object that look like a bright star at first |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Pulsing bluish-white object seen over NE Mesa AZ |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | I'm reporting very concerning sightings of non identifiable objects that are being launched into the sky. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | White halo/ fire ball appeared in east mesa. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | Reddish-orange object with beams of light emanating from body of object. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2013 | 2 ufo sighted above Superstition Mt Mesa Az 330am 9-17 |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | No tail of light like a meteor, just bursts of light from what seemed to be from deep space. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | They looked like the Brazil UFO on January 3 video on YouTube. A cluster of around 12. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | 3 orange globes hovering in the sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | Triangle craft with flashing lights. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | The triangle shaped craft sat there for a couple seconds and then shot off really really fast. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | Four white round lights in a square formation |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | Two slow, black heart changing to tear shaped objects decend with no lights and unheard witnessed by family over e.Mesa,AZ! |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | Rectangular ufo seen in Arizona |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | 6 orange globes in the east valley sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | Yellowish/orange sphere seen by Wife and Myself. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2012 | Small, bright, white light appears, beam of light flashes, then it's gone. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2011 | Mulitple lights seen over Mesa, Az New Years 2012 |
| Mesa, AZ | 2011 | arrow shaped craft red and orange-white over arizona. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2011 | Bright bluish light seen over Mesa Arizona in the direction of Four Peaks Mountain. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2011 | Bluish white egg shaprd light falling from sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2011 | Big Round Circle UFO Sighting, A.M. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2011 | triangle shaped, 5 lights, silent, fast, |
| Mesa (queen creek), AZ | 2010 | white light being chased by a F16 |
| Mesa, AZ | 2010 | Oval object in the sky splits into three sections of light and start to rotate clockwise while moving to the west in Mesa, AZ. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2010 | Not observed - Captured object in two of 3 images - Have original image in DNG format |
| Mesa, AZ | 2010 | Yellowish amber spheres of light seen over the Sonoran desert. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2010 | Two orange/amber lights moving across the sky in a SE to NW direction seen from backyard in Mesa, Arizona at 1:40 a.m on May 20, 2010. |
| Mesa (nne of), AZ | 2009 | Self-luminous, flourescent-glowing , disc-oid object appears stationary in central Arizona skies |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Brilliant cone-shaped light to the WNW of Mesa, AZ. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Flying object seen in Mesa. ((NUFORC Note: Confirmed high-altitude research balloon. PD)) |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Private pilot and passenger witness UFO in flight in northern Arizona Skies |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | May 25th, 2009 1 00 AM, i was sitting on my balcony. Smoking a cigarette , and talking to my girlfriend.i have been staying up all |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Wabboling UFO effect. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Bright light moving quickly across the sky that suddenly expands to 20X it size and then shoot into outer space. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | 2 brilliant lights in the Mesa, Arizona sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | objects far up in the sky, pretending to be stars, a bit more yellow than actual stars, moving in all directions |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Bottle cap shaped UFO with red glow underneath, clearly seen from back yard on December 1st, 2009 . |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Bright white light left earth at incredible rate of speed |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | circular fireball slowly flew over me |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Bright white light turns yellowish then fades away into space. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | Bright Light, No Sound, Heading Eastward at 5:59am Thursday 19th Nov 2009 |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | It was around 7:00 pm when I noticed a bright white sort of haze non moving light.It was at a very high alltitude because at first I th |
| Mesa, AZ | 2009 | I saw an invisible helicopter |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Five very bright, solid yellowish, to golden lights that changed shape and format. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | All electronics died when aircraft was seen directly above myself. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Two bright amber colored lights appeared over Phoenix, Az. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Triangle light pattern with 4th light in the center observed by 2 neighbors |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | 4 Orbs over Mesa, Arizona seen by at least three witnesses. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Ufo as big as a football field,boomerang shaped,with red non blinking lights! |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | At sunset, a large cloud approached from the SW to a pos. approx. 10 km from us. ((NUFORC Note: We see clouds only. PD)) |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Three circular lights clearly not typical aircraft floating and moving away smoothly. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Very bright light drops off smaller light & flies upward & disappears |
| Mesa, AZ | 2008 | Very large oval shaped object about the size of the City of Phoenix flying through the clouds. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2007 | Unknown light in picture of the arizona sky in january |
| Mesa, AZ | 2007 | Groups Medical Aliens do Healing on humans, animals, plants... |
| Mesa, AZ | 2007 | Slowly moving and stopped craft barely over my home stayed for 15 minutes. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2007 | A brilliant orb hung motionless then moved directionally side to side, up/down turned west - could see aircraft was circular. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2007 | Brilliantly glowing object could move directionally anyway, silent and houvered in a circular pattern and was a circular shape. |
| East mesa, AZ | 2006 | White fireball in NE Mesa New Year's Eve |
| Mesa, AZ | 2006 | Disk |
| Mesa, AZ | 2006 | 2 objects over Mesa, 10-15 thousand ft., broad daylight |
| Mesa, AZ | 2006 | Black Triangle glides over the night sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | star takes off! |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | Sonic booms over Mesa? |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | strobe object vanishes |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | Phoenix Lights are Back! |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | Three lights in a triangle dim simultaneously |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | Bright red light floating almost overhead in western Mesa, AZ - just to the SE a little. Floated/moved slowly until it vanished. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | This was not a balloon, known aircraft,spotlight,,flair ,star, or planet. What in our world was it? |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | red lights over mesa arizona |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | red rotating lights that drop |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | 3 red triangle lights over mesa arizona moving at a slow rate of speed. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | Bright light traveling across sky near Phoenix, AZ faded to black and kept traveling. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2005 | The Lights over Mesa Return - See Video Footage. ((NUFORC Note: Possible flares near Gila Bend Firing Range. PD)) |
| King country (new zealand) | 2004 | UFO sighting, Whareorino Hut, central North Island, New Zealand. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | a formation of 5 yellowish orange flexing noodles flying across the sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | 3-4 UFO's forming a pyramid formation in a Mesa Arizona Desert. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | Lights over Phoenix again& again. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | looking due east at Ŋ high bright round object bouncing about the clear skies from 2:am-5:am |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | I WAS SITTING ON THE STEPS OF MY APARTMENT WHEN I OBSERVED A BLACK CIGAR SHAPED OBJECT TRAVLING |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | "V" shaped object seen in Mesa, AZ 11/30/04 6:00pm |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | I was turning from Baseline onto southbound Hawes RD. I saw what appeared to be a redish orange blimp looking object. It was very brigh |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | Black Orb Morfed Into DIsk |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | I saw for a 2nd time a cigar or oval object that seems to flip and bobel as it's flying changing form from oval to doubled winged shap |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | STATIONARY OBJECT, RED, GREEN LIGHTS, NOW AND THEN ((NUFORC Note: Venus or Sirius. PD)) |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | White light falling from the sky. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | Large bright light appeared in sky overhead and then quickly dropped down out of my sight. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | Gunsight AZ UFO sighting |
| Mesa, AZ | 2004 | Gold hub cap-like shape that bobbed along rather unsteadily. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | 6 BRIGHT LIGHT SEEN OVER MESA AZ. IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY 6-10 ADULT WITNESSES, OBJECTS WERE MOVING VERY RAPIDLY ACROSS THE SKY |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | Bright red light east of Mesa. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | slow low white flying cigar shaped ufo over east mesa. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | 2 glowing orange fireballs in the sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | Bright Green Light above Mesa |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | Flashing red light moving slowly |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | Tripod shaped object with red, blue, and yellow/white flashing lights hovering and or moving over the east valley. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2003 | Coming Home |
| Mesa, AZ | 2002 | Small satelite object that moved, stopped and faded away. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2002 | MESA IN BROAD DAYLIGHT |
| Mesa, AZ | 2002 | We had gone up to a mountian side to watch the city lights. We were getting our lawn chairs from out of the pickup when my companion no |
| Mesa, AZ | 2002 | Observed a dark, oblong craft fly over Mesa, AZ approx. 5 minutes after watching Air Force One pass by. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2002 | At about 10 PM I witnessed several small circles of light moving around in the sky, (South West.) I immdediatly got some friends who li |
| Mesa, AZ | 2001 | Black,grey,and white egg shape low to the ground and NO LIGHTS! |
| Mesa, AZ | 2001 | Round object just hovering over homes. |
| Mesa, AZ | 2001 | Tiny, black dome-shaped object seen near Hwy 60 in Mesa |
| Mesa, AZ | 2001 | Amber diamond shape in Mesa night sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of a star or planet. PD)) |
| Mesa, AZ | 2001 | At approximately 10:31 am, Sunday morning, I was outside on our back porch smoking a cigarette when a flight of three Air Force trainer |
| Mesa, AZ | 2000 | Red Light over east valley of Phoenix |
| Mesa, AZ | 2000 | white object appearing to be round with 5 cylinders protruding from bottom |
| Mesa, AZ | 2000 | Two bright red lights in the southwestern sky |
| Mesa, AZ | 2000 | golden orb's flying about. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1999 | Saw Falling star fall then stop and move away from us |
| Mesa, AZ | 1999 | looked up to see light appear out of nowhere: as if it saw me, it sped up; shot into NOTHING! It was head WSW, but it disappeared too |
| Mesa, AZ | 1999 | I was sitting in my back yard looking at all the airplanes, when I looked south. I saw a bright light that was not seeming to move. Its |
| Mesa, AZ | 1998 | Large yellow orange fireball gliding across the sky ejected a small fireball straight down beneath it. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1998 | Bright blue-white flash on or near the northern horizon. It flared up and then was gone. |
| East mesa /apache junction., AZ | 1997 | I came home after work at about 9pm 3/13/997. My children, ages, 7ǀ,& 11, had been in the backyard all evening. When I arrived, they |
| Mesa (at mesa community college), AZ | 1997 | LARGE TRIANGULAR OBJECT WITH 5 DIM AMBER LIGHTS (ONE IN EACH CORNER AND 2 MORE NEAR FRONT) MOVED SLOWLY NW TO S-SW WITH NO NOISE. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1997 | UPDATE TO 2/6/97 MESA, AZ SIGHTING ALREADY POSTED TO NUFORC WEBSITE |
| Mesa, AZ | 1997 | UFO over Phoenix...over my back yard. March 1997 |
| Mesa, AZ | 1997 | A small dark purple quad-thruster craft hovering 200-300 feet in the sky. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes |
| Mesa, AZ | 1997 | Viewed a light yellowish-orange somewhat translucent triangular-shape object with an undulating light. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1997 | In Mesa, AZ, I clearly saw a large triangular ship, flying slowly---it turned / flew away at terrific speed. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1995 | Bigger than a house floating in the sky.I know what,I saw, but don't know why! |
| Mesa, AZ | 1995 | They're here whether you like it or not. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1995 | Large gray Zeppelin or blimp shaped craft sighted north of Mesa, AZ |
| Mesa (north of), AZ | 1994 | I saw a black craft floating in the air, no noise or anything. When I got out of my car to see what was going on, it left. |
| Mesa, AZ | 1993 | driving south bound on gilbert road approaching the superstition freeway the sun bounced off something in the air and it caught my atte |
| Mesa, AZ | 1992 | Back in the early 1990s during the Early DARK Evening I witnessed a set of lights over NorthEast Mesa Arizona heading from East to West |
| Mesa, AZ | 1981 | I AM WONDERING WHY NO ONE IN AZ IS REPORTING THE FACT THAT THE MASS UFO SIGHTING SEEN 10 YEARS AGO WAS ACTUALLY THE SECOND TIME THIS HA |
| Mesa, AZ | 1979 | Events throughout my life |
| Mesa, AZ | 1978 | Huge silver cigar shaped craft glides low and slow over a populated suburban area in Mesa Az followed closely by a military fighter air |