UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Roswell, NM, USA

Orange balls of light on US 285, just north of Roswell, New Mexico.

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-30
Where
Roswell, NM, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
33.394, -104.525 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-roswell-nm-2020-1129e4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Roswell, NM shows up 51 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from New Mexico in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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