CaseUnknown1997
Raton (South of; Ft. Lincoln rest stop), NM, USA
Observed unknown high speed, high altitude objects make non-balistic course changes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- Raton (South of; Ft. Lincoln rest stop), NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 36.903, -104.439 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-raton-south-of-ft-lincoln-rest-stop-nm-1997-8b69ab
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Raton (South of; Ft. Lincoln rest stop), NM has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 24 reports from New Mexico.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.