Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Unmoving pure white light turned to orange then faded over Rio Rancho. ((NUFORC Note: Helium-filled balloon at high altitude. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2013-09-21
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rio-rancho-nm-2013-5d4e2a
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
- Rio Rancho, NM shows up 45 times across the archive.
- 87 reports came from New Mexico in 2013.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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