Las Cruces, NM, USA
I saw a small light become brighter and as it did another and another and another. A total of 5 lights above the Organ mountains in a s
Report quality: High73/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-12
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-las-cruces-nm-2019-c99351
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
August 2019 was a busy month for Las Cruces, NM: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 85 reports logged in Las Cruces, NM.
- This case is one of 89 New Mexico reports filed in 2019.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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