Desert, NM, USA
While traveling at night we saw what appeared to be a glowing dish in the distance about 600 yards away and 200 ft high. The car light
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-10-01
- Where
- Desert, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.088, -110.319 · fallback
- Slug
- disk-over-desert-nm-1965-e9361b
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Desert, NM has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 4 reports from New Mexico.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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