Carlsbad, NM, USA
Inverted teardrop with 'Y' shaped shadow changed color/reflectivity with the sunset
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-07
- Where
- Carlsbad, NM, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.421, -104.229 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-carlsbad-nm-2019-f08eee
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
- One of 21 documented reports from Carlsbad, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 89 sightings in 2019.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
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.