CaseFormation2006
Raton, NM, USA
7 bright lights over northeast new mexico
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Raton, NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30secs
- Geo
- 36.903, -104.439 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-raton-nm-2006-b232b0
Wave
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
- Raton, NM shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from New Mexico in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.