Santa Fe, NM, USA
Inverted tear drop shaped brightly illuminated slow moving object sighted over 3 1/2 hours. ((NUFORC Note: Balloon. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 13500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-09-13
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 hours 45 minutes
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-santa-fe-nm-2014-77a42f
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
- Santa Fe, NM has 139 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 110 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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