Las Cruces, NM, USA
Bright diamond shape craft stayed in one place . Looked like it changed from 1-3 crafts, appeared for about 20 min and tucked away behi
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-17
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-las-cruces-nm-2009-ff600b
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
Las Cruces, NM logged 5 reports in the single month of May 2009.
In context
- One of 85 documented reports from Las Cruces, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 51 sightings in 2009.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.4%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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