Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Started out with two lights then separated out into multiple lights. Video has been cleaned by pro, results remarkable.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-18
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15-20
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-rio-rancho-nm-2022-2cad0b
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Rio Rancho, NM reports filed in February 2022.
In context
- Rio Rancho, NM shows up 45 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from New Mexico in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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