CaseChanging2014

Hobbs, NM, USA

Three circular craft changing shape SW of Hobbs, NM. ((NUFORC Note: Possible street lamps in front of Sun. PD))

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-04-05
Where
Hobbs, NM, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
32.703, -103.136 · exact
Slug
changing-over-hobbs-nm-2014-047919
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…

In context

  • This is one of 15 reports logged in Hobbs, NM.
  • This case is one of 110 New Mexico reports filed in 2014.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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