Santa Fe, NM, USA
Fiery object moving south to north which separated into approx 5 small objects which trailed it in a straight line
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-03
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- approx 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-santa-fe-nm-2006-699417
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
3 reports came out of Santa Fe, NM in October 2006 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Santa Fe, NM has 139 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 64 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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