Belen, NM, USA
As I pulled to the light on my way into the city for work I noticed a big silver metal sphere in the sky not moving so I pulled over an
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
- 2021-05-16
- Where
- Belen, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 34.663, -106.776 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-belen-nm-2021-573e03
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 11 reports logged in Belen, NM.
- This case is one of 48 New Mexico reports filed in 2021.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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