Las Vegas, NM, USA
4 Lights moving in unison then diappeared after a sudden bright flash of light over Mora county, NM
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-30
- Where
- Las Vegas, NM, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.594, -105.224 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-las-vegas-nm-2008-8f5460
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
- Las Vegas, NM shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from New Mexico in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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