Las Cruces, NM, USA
Vertical cone shaped with pulsating colored lights, hovering in same spot in sky. ((anonymous report))
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-20
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 hour at time of report
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-las-cruces-nm-2017-83943c
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 85 reports logged in Las Cruces, NM.
- This case is one of 82 New Mexico reports filed in 2017.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.