Las Cruces, NM, USA
Out side wal mart several people were watching a slow moving fire moving from east to west. They said it has been going for 2 minutes.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-04-21
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-las-cruces-nm-2013-6038cd
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 85 documented reports from Las Cruces, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 87 sightings in 2013.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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