Los Alamos, NM, USA
White glowing circular object in the sky. not moving just sitting there for last hour or more. ((NUFORC Note: Balloon? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-09-17
- Where
- Los Alamos, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- on going
- Geo
- 35.888, -106.307 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-los-alamos-nm-2016-fbc797
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
- One of 10 documented reports from Los Alamos, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 78 sightings in 2016.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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