CaseFormation1999
Portales, NM, USA
Briefly observed an asymmetrical v-shaped formation of 7 solid, silent, unblinking lights.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-01
- Where
- Portales, NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.186, -103.334 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-portales-nm-1999-cceb5b
In context
- Portales, NM shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 35 reports came from New Mexico in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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