Rio Arriba County, NM, USA
Quick history: 8 Years Military Army Medical Officer to rank of Captain; Vietnam vet w/bronze star-- 4 year degree in Biology Univ of C
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-12
- Where
- Rio Arriba County, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 36.510, -106.693 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rio-arriba-county-nm-2013-56c877
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
- Rio Arriba County, NM has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 87 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure 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.