Las Cruces, NM, USA
a hollow blue ball of lighting that turned to a fireball then took and umbrella shape and loomed for a second then disapeared.
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1991-05-30
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-las-cruces-nm-1991-90854d
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- This is one of 85 reports logged in Las Cruces, NM.
- This case is one of 9 New Mexico reports filed in 1991.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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