Crownpoint, NM, USA
Published newspaper article Navajo Nation Messenger on 8/31/05. Giant V and crash near Standing Rock NM
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-31
- Where
- Crownpoint, NM, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 35.678, -108.151 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-crownpoint-nm-2005-fcfbd0
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Crownpoint, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 34 sightings in 2005.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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