UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Ranchos de Taos, NM, USA

Large westward moving blue-white meteor 18:34 MT seen from Taos, NM

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-04
Where
Ranchos de Taos, NM, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
~3 seconds
Geo
36.359, -105.609 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ranchos-de-taos-nm-2012-1e65dc
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…

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In context

  • Ranchos de Taos, NM shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 72 reports came from New Mexico in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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