UFOMYST
CaseOther2008

Aztec, NM, USA

huge, bright meteor seen over Aztec, New Mexico

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-07-23
Where
Aztec, NM, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5-6 seconds
Geo
36.822, -107.993 · exact
Slug
other-over-aztec-nm-2008-3582af
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

  • One of 8 documented reports from Aztec, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 59 sightings in 2008.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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