UFOMYST
CaseFlash2012

Velarde, NM, USA

Red, Blue, and Bright White Hovering Crafts over the East Mesa in Velarde, NM. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" stars? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 28800s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2012-10-15
Where
Velarde, NM, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
all night
Geo
36.159, -105.975 · exact
Slug
flash-over-velarde-nm-2012-6c374a
Wave

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    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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Velarde, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 72 sightings in 2012.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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