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CaseTeardrop2007

New Mexico (above; in flight), NM, USA

I noticed out of the airplane window while flying from NC to Los Angeles approx. 6:30pm pt until around 6:45pm pt a very unusual light.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-09-13
Where
New Mexico (above; in flight), NM, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
15 min.
Geo
39.603, -76.949 · fallback
Slug
teardrop-over-new-mexico-above-in-flight-nm-2007-ce588f
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in New Mexico (above; in flight), NM.
  • This case is one of 49 New Mexico reports filed in 2007.
  • Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

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