CaseTeardrop2009
Tucumcari, NM, USA
Object was not a weather balloon, or any known aircraft.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-15
- Where
- Tucumcari, NM, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 35.172, -103.727 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-tucumcari-nm-2009-2297f9
Wave
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Tucumcari, NM.
- This case is one of 51 New Mexico reports filed in 2009.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
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.