UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Carlsbad, NM, USA

Outside at 6am and looked up abd saw what appeared to be a largwr rgan normal bright star. I watched it for about 3 minutes, then notic

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-27
Where
Carlsbad, NM, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
32.421, -104.229 · exact
Slug
light-over-carlsbad-nm-2020-74fa0d
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…

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In context

  • Carlsbad, NM shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from New Mexico in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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