CaseLight2012

Santa Fe, NM, USA

At 6:45 pm while walking on the bike path near Frency's Park, a low flying bright white and a little bit blue light in a small oval or

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-23
Where
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
35.687, -105.938 · exact
Slug
light-over-santa-fe-nm-2012-4c81e1
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…

In context

  • This is one of 139 reports logged in Santa Fe, NM.
  • This case is one of 72 New Mexico reports filed in 2012.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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