San Antonio, NM, USA
THE CRAFT APPEARED TO HAVE DECENDED AT AN ANGL, SKIDDED OVER A HUNDRED YARDS PUSHING THE DIRT IN FRONT OF IT AND BURIED IT'S SELF
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: 734400s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1945-08-16
- Where
- San Antonio, NM, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 8-9 DAYS
- Geo
- 33.918, -106.866 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-san-antonio-nm-1945-af730b
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in San Antonio, NM.
- This case is one of 2 New Mexico reports filed in 1945.
- Oval craft made up 4.5% of 1940s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.