Santa Fe, NM, USA
In Santa Fe, New Mexico in June 1966, three witnesses reported a disk-shaped object, and a photograph of the sighting was later published in a local newspaper.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (159 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-30
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-fe-nm-1966-5198ed
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
- This is one of 139 reports logged in Santa Fe, NM.
- This case is one of 4 New Mexico reports filed in 1966.
- Disk craft made up 23.5% of 1960s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.