CaseFireball2008
Aztec, NM, USA
huge, bright meteor seen over Aztec, New Mexico...again.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-24
- Where
- Aztec, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-6 seconds
- Geo
- 36.822, -107.993 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-aztec-nm-2008-5ef627
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
- One of 8 documented reports from Aztec, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 59 sightings in 2008.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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