CaseTeardrop2012

Melrose, NM, USA

Bright Object in Eastern New Mexico Sky

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-09
Where
Melrose, NM, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1:00
Geo
34.430, -103.632 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-melrose-nm-2012-76e9c1
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…

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Melrose, NM.
  • This case is one of 72 New Mexico reports filed in 2012.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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