Buckhorn, NM, USA
Bright flashing object near Buckhorn, NM. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star or planet. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-04-17
- Where
- Buckhorn, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 33.037, -108.708 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-buckhorn-nm-2012-bf6be1
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
- Buckhorn, NM has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 72 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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