CaseChanging2014
Hobbs, NM, USA
Three circular craft changing shape SW of Hobbs, NM
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 (51 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 minute
- Geo
- 32.703, -103.136 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-hobbs-nm-2014-b118d2
Wave
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…
In context
- Hobbs, NM shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 110 reports came from New Mexico in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.