Philmont Scout Ranch, NM, USA
Matrix of bright green lights with loud whirring noise moving slowly above Boy Scouts at Philmont Scout Ranch Elk Horn camp.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-03
- Where
- Philmont Scout Ranch, NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15-30 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-philmont-scout-ranch-nm-2016-fbf452
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
- Philmont Scout Ranch, NM has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 78 reports from New Mexico.
Report
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