Artesia, NM, USA
Brantley Lake. To the S, we saw a bright green flash the size of a small plane.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-12
- Where
- Artesia, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 32.842, -104.403 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-artesia-nm-2017-13247e
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
- Artesia, NM has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 82 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.