CaseLight1999
White Sands, NM, USA
A starlike object descended vertically for 2 minutes changing color from a very bright white to gold the closer it got to the ground.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-22
- Where
- White Sands, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 32.381, -106.479 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-white-sands-nm-1999-64fc7f
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from White Sands, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 35 sightings in 1999.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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