UFOMYST
CaseChanging2018

Ghost Ranch, NM, USA

Large, circular, gauzy light moved in unison with our vehicle, changed shape into an oval, moved obliquely and, finally, straight down

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-30
Where
Ghost Ranch, NM, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
—
Slug
changing-over-ghost-ranch-nm-2018-69a7ca
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Ghost Ranch, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 60 sightings in 2018.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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