La Mesa, NM, USA
5 separate large fireballs with bright white light in the middle of them each. At one time it looked as if it left a smoke like trail.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-05-08
- Where
- La Mesa, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 32.122, -106.708 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-la-mesa-nm-2019-369ffa
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in La Mesa, NM.
- This case is one of 89 New Mexico reports filed in 2019.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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