UFOMYST
CaseChanging2020

Peralta, NM, USA

Pin point of light turns into large disk of ligtht. ((NUFORC Note: Flare from an Iridium satellite?? 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 (51 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
2020-05-01
Where
Peralta, NM, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1 minute
Geo
34.837, -106.691 · exact
Slug
changing-over-peralta-nm-2020-dce509
Wave

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    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…

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In context

  • Peralta, NM shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from New Mexico in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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