UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Raton, NM, USA

Saw this bright star floating. Realized I was way too close. Thought it might be a helicopter hovering with its search light.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-14
Where
Raton, NM, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1:30
Geo
36.903, -104.439 · exact
Slug
circle-over-raton-nm-2018-716c7e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Raton, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 60 sightings in 2018.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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