CaseFireball2003
El Rito, NM, USA
A bright yellow egg-shaped firey object suddenly appeared in the west on 11/20/03 at l7:30 hours, suddenly vanishing and leaving a smok
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-11-20
- Where
- El Rito, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 36.343, -106.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-el-rito-nm-2003-337e19
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from El Rito, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 45 sightings in 2003.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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