New Mexico, NM, USA
colors shined where can tell the shape of the craft, the tip was the front and the circle was the back with fire coming out of it u
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-09
- Where
- New Mexico, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 20 sec
- Geo
- 39.603, -76.949 · fallback
- Slug
- cone-over-new-mexico-nm-2009-f92fbc
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 9 reports logged in New Mexico, NM.
- This case is one of 51 New Mexico reports filed in 2009.
- Cone craft made up 0.5% of 2000s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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