Silver City, NM, USA
Unusual cloudlike formation with extending tendrils seen over Silver City, New Mexico
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-12
- Where
- Silver City, NM, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 32.770, -108.280 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-silver-city-nm-2006-6aaecd
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
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Silver City, NM.
- This case is one of 64 New Mexico reports filed in 2006.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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