CaseUnknown2005
Clovis, NM, USA
saw bright, small object in the sky. may be hot air balloon
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-15
- Where
- Clovis, NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 34.405, -103.205 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-clovis-nm-2005-fef67f
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
- Clovis, NM shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 34 reports came from New Mexico in 2005.
Report
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