Santa Fe, NM, USA
15 flashing lights in a vertical formation traveling in northern sky east to west with two fighter jets flying at them.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-08
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-santa-fe-nm-2018-97768b
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
December 2018 was a busy month for Santa Fe, NM: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 139 reports logged in Santa Fe, NM.
- This case is one of 60 New Mexico reports filed in 2018.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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