Santa Fe, NM, USA
Straight-line formation, 20-25 lights going on and off periodically in night sky, accompanied by droning sound, steadily moving west.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-08
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-fe-nm-2018-bec473
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.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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