UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2014

Las Cruces, NM, USA

((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-12-28
Where
Las Cruces, NM, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.312, -106.778 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-las-cruces-nm-2014-908a0e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Las Cruces, NM shows up 85 times across the archive.
  • 110 reports came from New Mexico in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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