CaseFormation2007

Santa Fe, NM, USA

~1 hour over ABQ, began descent halfway through observation. Three color-changing, pulsing lights that retained formation.

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: 3120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-04-30
Where
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
52 mins
Geo
35.687, -105.938 · exact
Slug
formation-over-santa-fe-nm-2007-be4d1c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Santa Fe, NM shows up 139 times across the archive.
  • 49 reports came from New Mexico in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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