Santa Fe, NM, USA
At least 4 lights flying in & out of the clouds in the baca street area. Their lights would get really bright & then dim, sometimes goi
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-10
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20+ minutes
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-santa-fe-nm-2016-1c8157
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Santa Fe, NM reports filed in May 2016.
In context
- Santa Fe, NM shows up 139 times across the archive.
- 78 reports came from New Mexico in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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