CaseTeardrop2018

Deming, NM, USA

Caught floating guitar shaped light and 3 others appeared move toward earth and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-09-04
Where
Deming, NM, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
32.269, -107.759 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-deming-nm-2018-dcb989
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Deming, NM logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2018.

In context

  • One of 30 documented reports from Deming, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 60 sightings in 2018.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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