CaseFireball2013
Arroyo Seco, NM, USA
Traveling fire ball in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-21
- Where
- Arroyo Seco, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 36.517, -105.569 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-arroyo-seco-nm-2013-ceb867
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
- Arroyo Seco, NM shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 87 reports came from New Mexico in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.