UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Hobbs, NM, USA

Bright orange orb hovered high in sky then disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-09
Where
Hobbs, NM, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
32.703, -103.136 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hobbs-nm-2018-645fe5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Hobbs, NM shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from New Mexico in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

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.