Santa Fe, NM, USA
We saw a round orb red and orange shoot across the sky, descending in Santa Fe, NM.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-24
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-fe-nm-2015-e6f1ee
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…
Local cluster
Santa Fe, NM logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2015.
In context
- One of 139 documented reports from Santa Fe, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 78 sightings in 2015.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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