CaseUnknown2008

McIntosh, NM, USA

The 2 orange spheres just stayed in place and one would flash bright then the other, they didn't move other than that.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-30
Where
McIntosh, NM, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30 min.
Geo
34.865, -106.052 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mcintosh-nm-2008-b68ad3
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…

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from McIntosh, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 59 sightings in 2008.

Report

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