El Rito, NM, USA
Bright object descended rapidly, leaving a shower of sparks, and turned in a J shape, then stayed the same.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-28
- Where
- El Rito, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 36.343, -106.189 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-rito-nm-2009-d5f8f0
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…
In context
- El Rito, NM shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from New Mexico in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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