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CaseTeardrop2019

Santa Fe, NM, USA

My husband and I saw an extremely bright light in the shape of a teardrop. It resembled a hot air balloon. After about an hour, it turn

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-29
Where
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
90 minutes
Geo
35.687, -105.938 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-santa-fe-nm-2019-707961
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

  • Santa Fe, NM has 139 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 89 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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