CaseFlash1976
Hobbs, NM, USA
Large Flash of Light observed from an FAA control tower in New Mexico.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-06-15
- Where
- Hobbs, NM, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 32.703, -103.136 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-hobbs-nm-1976-ee6cd3
In context
- This is one of 15 reports logged in Hobbs, NM.
- This case is one of 3 New Mexico reports filed in 1976.
- Flash craft made up 0.5% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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