CaseLight2020

ranchos de taos, NM, USA

Multicolor flickering light shines bright, moves slow up into the sky until it's too far to be seen.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-07
Where
ranchos de taos, NM, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
a few hours
Geo
36.359, -105.609 · exact
Slug
light-over-ranchos-de-taos-nm-2020-de21b8
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

  • ranchos de taos, NM has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 82 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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