UFOMYST
CaseOval2020

Santa Fe, NM, USA

On September 18th at 9:11, I was sky watching and talking to my friend in Indiana about what we were observing in the sky that evening.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-18
Where
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
35.687, -105.938 · exact
Slug
oval-over-santa-fe-nm-2020-71eedd
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

  • Santa Fe, NM shows up 139 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from New Mexico in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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