Santa Fe, NM, USA
Several bright lights headed slowly towards horizon
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-fe-nm-2006-88a136
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…
Local cluster
Santa Fe, NM logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2006.
In context
- One of 139 documented reports from Santa Fe, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 64 sightings in 2006.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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