Merida (Mexico), Mexico
The object fly in to W-NW direction. The object changed by red-blue colors. The object appear in the sky and desappear in seconds
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-09
- Where
- Merida (Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 20.967, -89.623 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-merida-mexico-2006-2b1117
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Merida (Mexico), Mexico.
- This case is one of 23 Mexico reports filed in 2006.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.