Fireball over Carlsbad, NM
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The report, as filed
Bright fireball object.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-11-17 → 2013-12-04
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August 29, 2022 · 9:06 PM · CHANGING
Carlsbad, NM
We went out to star gaze like we usually do at this same spot then we look up and looks like a star is flashing and traveling insanely fast across the sky it would shut off for 3 seconds then be ina different spot blink three times shut off reappear and blink in another location then it ended up infromt of some storm clouds in the distance it then split up and in two sperate locations lit up bright orange/red then multiples of the same colors started moving and shifting across the sky in 2 different locations continued for a minute then they all join back together and let off such a bright and enormous amount of light. So bright it lit up all the clouds in the sky orange then dissapeared then they kept appearing super bright and disappearing something ive never seen in my life I had my 5 year old daughter and wife with me and we all saw it get back to town and the local Facebook page is blowing up about it I believe we were the closest one to it also got sounded like radio freceny in the air and electricity was running thru our bodies we all get scared hop back into the car heading back into town to Carlsbad and I look left out the driver window and the same star we seen is FOLLOWING US ive never experienced anything so frightening in my entire life out of this world experience( coyotes and our dog had with us were all in the area freaking out we could hear animals all around us howling and everything)
April 27, 2020 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Carlsbad, NM
Outside at 6am and looked up abd saw what appeared to be a largwr rgan normal bright star. I watched it for about 3 minutes, then noticed it was moving slowly. It moved fairly slow and finally it came across my house, never speeding up at all. It moved on across the sky and then just disappeared. From first seeing it until it disappeared, the total time was 10 minutes.
October 7, 2019 · 4:45 PM · TEARDROP
Carlsbad, NM
I was driving home toward the East in Carlsbad NM and noticed what I thought was an aircraft, the light was bright white like LED lights and being an aviation mechanic and pilot I was intrigued. What would be flying with such lighting? I pulled off the road and observed for about five minutes and the location did not change. I wanted to get home and get my camera gear to take pictures and when I did with my 50mm Sigma Lens I observed an inverted teardrop shape with linear shadows from the center of the narrow end forming a ‘Y’ shape on the wide end. The light changed with the sunset and was considerably higher than the local terrain. i would like to do an azimuth study to find the approximate altitude with the time 7:00pm from Carlsbad NM and the pictures I took that were reddening like the sunset.
October 7, 2019 · 4:45 PM · TEARDROP
Carlsbad, NM
I was driving home toward the East in Carlsbad, NM, and noticed what I thought was an aircraft, the light was bright white like LED lights and being an aviation mechanic and pilot I was intrigued. What would be flying with such lighting? I pulled off the road and observed for about five minutes and the location did not change. I wanted to get home and get my camera gear to take pictures and when I did with my 50mm Sigma Lens I observed an inverted teardrop shape with linear shadows from the center of the narrow end forming a ‘Y’ shape on the wide end. The light changed with the sunset and was considerably higher than the local terrain. I would like to do an azimuth study to find the approximate altitude with the time 7:00pm from Carlsbad NM and the pictures I took that were reddening like the sunset.
May 19, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Carlsbad, NM
It was quite a ways off and very dark. As soon as it turned to reveal the other arm it virtually disappeared. I drive at night for a living and I am very familiar with things in the night sky. I've never seen anything like this and wish it would have lasted a lot longer than just a few seconds.
November 17, 2013 · 5:45 PM · CIRCLE
Carlsbad, NM
Observed two reddish orange objects moving from west to east above Carlsbad New Mexico about four or five minutes apart. Both objects a