Raton/Des Moines, NM, USA
The object followed us (our car) over 40 miles and then stayed 100 feet off the ground for about 10 minutes. It then went straight up
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-20
- Where
- Raton/Des Moines, NM, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 Min
- Geo
- 36.903, -104.439 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-raton-des-moines-nm-1947-676868
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Raton/Des Moines, NM has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1947 brought 4 reports from New Mexico.
- The 1940s skewed 4.5% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.