CaseRectangle1996

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Thought it was a plane coming FROM the SE (moving NNW), it moved at a very regular plane-like speed. Felt it might have been a militar

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1996-10-03
Where
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
:05
Geo
35.687, -105.938 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-santa-fe-nm-1996-ba2807

In context

  • Santa Fe, NM has 139 sightings on file here.
  • 1996 brought 10 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 1990s skewed 1.4% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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