CaseFireball1959
Lake Bonita, NM, USA
It landed and lit up the mountian like day. there were some sort of peoplw with lights that where they put them it wasa like daylight.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-08-20
- Where
- Lake Bonita, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 0330
- Geo
- 26.637, -80.095 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-lake-bonita-nm-1959-a0e5e2
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Lake Bonita, NM.
- This case is one of 3 New Mexico reports filed in 1959.
- Fireball craft made up 3.9% of 1950s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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