Santa Fe/Glorieta, NM, USA
Solid, bright white and red rectangular object fall from night sky near Glorieta, New Mexico
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-08
- Where
- Santa Fe/Glorieta, NM, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-santa-fe-glorieta-nm-2006-eccf80
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
- Santa Fe/Glorieta, NM shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from New Mexico in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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