Merida (Mexico), Mexico
Decenas de esferas de colores en elcielo nocturno de Mérida, Yucatán,México.
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
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-31
- Where
- Merida (Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15'
- Geo
- 20.967, -89.623 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-merida-mexico-2005-2604d9
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
- Merida (Mexico), Mexico has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 28 reports from Mexico.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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