CaseCylinder2021

NM, USA

Cruise missile looking. ((NUFORC Note: Report from FAA employee. PD))

Report quality: Low36/100

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
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-21
Where
NM, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
Geo
Slug
cylinder-over-nm-2021-68ea09
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…

In context

  • 2021 brought 48 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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