Socorro, NM, USA
3-4 yellow round lights in a triad and a string over the northern end of the WSMR east of Socorro NM on 11.29.11 about 1830.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-29
- Where
- Socorro, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.058, -106.891 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-socorro-nm-2011-9dccb1
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 13 reports logged in Socorro, NM.
- This case is one of 35 New Mexico reports filed in 2011.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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