Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Circular shape became visible around 7:15 Mountain time and was pure white and as time went by it became a dark brilliant red almost li
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-13
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minuites
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rio-rancho-nm-2014-b11bc0
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 45 reports logged in Rio Rancho, NM.
- This case is one of 110 New Mexico reports filed in 2014.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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