Ranchos de Taos, NM, USA
Blue orbs photographed over Rio Pueblo. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-11-28
- Where
- Ranchos de Taos, NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.359, -105.609 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-ranchos-de-taos-nm-2019-decf4b
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
- Ranchos de Taos, NM shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 89 reports came from New Mexico in 2019.
Report
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