Tucumcari, NM, USA
On Hwy 54 headed North, the entire sky lit up in a bright blue light beginning in the north horizon and encompassing entire 360 view.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-08
- Where
- Tucumcari, NM, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.172, -103.727 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-tucumcari-nm-2012-c3ff98
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 5 reports logged in Tucumcari, NM.
- This case is one of 72 New Mexico reports filed in 2012.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.