CaseLight2002
Rio Rancho, NM, USA
It covered half the sky in just three seconds, stopped, did a half circle and faded to nothing.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-02
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 second
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rio-rancho-nm-2002-5269eb
In context
- Rio Rancho, NM has 45 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 46 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.