CaseDisk2008
New Mexico (above; in flight), AZ, USA
Observed Stationary Metallic Disc in Arizona.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-05
- Where
- New Mexico (above; in flight), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5-6 minutes
- Geo
- 39.603, -76.949 · fallback
- Slug
- disk-over-new-mexico-above-in-flight-az-2008-89e957
Wave
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
- New Mexico (above; in flight), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 178 reports came from Arizona in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.