Rio Rancho, CA, USA
I was walking out of the Target on 528 (Rio Rancho Blvd) and looked up and eastern to the stars towards the Big Dipper and to the left
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
- 2011-12-23
- Where
- Rio Rancho, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- less than one minute
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-rio-rancho-ca-2011-f601a6
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Rio Rancho, CA.
- This case is one of 624 California reports filed in 2011.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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