Rio Rancho, NM, USA
From inside my home I witnessed an oval shaped green light travel low and slow from my window. It was completely silent.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-rio-rancho-nm-2006-2b7ae1
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
- Rio Rancho, NM has 45 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 64 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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