Dona Ana, NM, USA
Saw this in 1954 at the Dona Ana Army rifle range in New Mexico. When the separation of targets from the shooter is large, at each targ
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.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-11-12
- Where
- Dona Ana, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10
- Geo
- 32.390, -106.814 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-dona-ana-nm-1954-e8c5c0
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- Dona Ana, NM shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from New Mexico in 1954.
- In the 1950s, 7.3% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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