UFOMYST
CaseDisk2018

Taos, NM, USA

A photographer took three photos of a tree, and an anomalous, disc-shaped object shows up in photos. ((NUFORC Note: Cicada?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-19
Where
Taos, NM, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1/4 second
Geo
36.407, -105.573 · exact
Slug
disk-over-taos-nm-2018-559fc4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from Taos, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 60 sightings in 2018.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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