UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Socorro, NM, USA

Around 8:30 pm last night noticed multiple bright white lights SE of Socorro in the Escondida are in the East mountains.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-13
Where
Socorro, NM, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 hours
Geo
34.058, -106.891 · exact
Slug
light-over-socorro-nm-2016-4b0822
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Socorro, NM has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 78 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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