UFOMYST
CaseLight2019

Rio Rancho, NM, USA

At about 10:30 p.m. we we're outside in my garage playing pool, and noticed the sound of a military helicopter, which isn't very abnorm

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-10
Where
Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
35.233, -106.664 · exact
Slug
light-over-rio-rancho-nm-2019-bf3bea
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

  • Rio Rancho, NM shows up 45 times across the archive.
  • 89 reports came from New Mexico in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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