Baja (Mexico), Mexico
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB. PD)) SOME SORT OF CRAFT AND MUSHROOM CLOUD, TO THE NORTH
Report quality: Low28/100
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
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-09-22
- Where
- Baja (Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 MINS
- Geo
- 46.183, 18.953 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-baja-mexico-2005-470710
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
- Baja (Mexico), Mexico shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from Mexico in 2005.
Report
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