White Sands National, NM, USA
Pulsating and solid green light with erratic white light dancing around them.
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.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-01
- Where
- White Sands National, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-white-sands-national-nm-2012-9d6e88
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…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from White Sands National, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 72 sightings in 2012.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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