Farmington (SE of, deserted area, Hwy 44), NM, USA
A large bright light apeared seemingly from nowhere.It followed my 18 wheeler for 1-2 min. then disapeared as quickly. It wasn't a pr.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-01-12
- Where
- Farmington (SE of, deserted area, Hwy 44), NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- aprox:2-3 min
- Geo
- 36.728, -108.219 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-farmington-se-of-deserted-area-hwy-44-nm-1973-f76e1f
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Farmington (SE of, deserted area, Hwy 44), NM.
- This case is one of 4 New Mexico reports filed in 1973.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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