UFOMYST
CaseOther2017

Moriarty area, NM, USA

Massive spotlight type light coming from on or behind the Sandia mountains. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of missile launch?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-22
Where
Moriarty area, NM, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
other-over-moriarty-area-nm-2017-a479c4
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Moriarty area, NM.
  • This case is one of 82 New Mexico reports filed in 2017.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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