Ruidoso, NM, USA
We saw two bright yellowish orange lights, then as soon as we noticed them they spread out in a perfect line two in the center.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-06-18
- Where
- Ruidoso, NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 33.332, -105.673 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-ruidoso-nm-2019-8cdd44
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
June 2019 was a busy month for Ruidoso, NM: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Ruidoso, NM.
- This case is one of 89 New Mexico reports filed in 2019.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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