Vaughn (Hwy 285; south of), NM, USA
12+ pulsing red lights, low on ground. Could be distant radio towers, but some things don't fit.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-18
- Where
- Vaughn (Hwy 285; south of), NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.602, -105.208 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-vaughn-hwy-285-south-of-nm-2008-e35db2
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Vaughn (Hwy 285; south of), NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 59 sightings in 2008.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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