UFOMYST
CaseChanging1997

Las Cruces, NM, USA

It was never anything I have seen before.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-07
Where
Las Cruces, NM, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
32.312, -106.778 · exact
Slug
changing-over-las-cruces-nm-1997-6c4abf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Las Cruces, NM in July 1997 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Las Cruces, NM has 85 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 24 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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