Las Cruces, NM, USA
A large black pencil shaped object sped by the width of the moon as observed through my telescope at 23:30 hrs on 10/09/19.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-09
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 1 second or less
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-las-cruces-nm-2019-fc94d0
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 85 documented reports from Las Cruces, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 89 sightings in 2019.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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