CaseChanging1996
Taos, NM, USA
Hovering over the trees next to my house. 3 globes of luminous light as large as basketballs. Rotated then took off and disappeared
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-09-01
- Where
- Taos, NM, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 36.407, -105.573 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-taos-nm-1996-b75566
In context
- This is one of 33 reports logged in Taos, NM.
- This case is one of 10 New Mexico reports filed in 1996.
- Changing craft made up 1.9% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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