CaseFireball2017

Las Cruces, NM, USA

Faced Organ mts. From my home in LA Mesa. Noticed orangish burning fireball type ufo, ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-26
Where
Las Cruces, NM, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
32.312, -106.778 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-las-cruces-nm-2017-b0b264
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 82 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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