Raton, NM, USA
Thought I was looking at a revolving lighthouse as I drove through a construction zone S of Raton through some mountainous terrain.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-27
- Where
- Raton, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 36.903, -104.439 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-raton-nm-2017-8f83a3
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
- Raton, NM shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 82 reports came from New Mexico in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
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.