Taos, NM, USA
Slowly dimming light,oval shaped metallic object bigger than 2 747's drops out of sight in east sky.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-08
- Where
- Taos, NM, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.407, -105.573 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-taos-nm-2014-7c3c04
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
- This is one of 33 reports logged in Taos, NM.
- This case is one of 110 New Mexico reports filed in 2014.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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