Las Cruces, NM, USA
Array of 6 rectangular white lights (windows or doors in the sky) flashing on and off from the center out observed for 5 seconds.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-19
- Where
- Las Cruces, NM, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 32.312, -106.778 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-las-cruces-nm-2016-85302f
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 85 reports logged in Las Cruces, NM.
- This case is one of 78 New Mexico reports filed in 2016.
Report
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