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Light over Oaxaca City (Mexico), OAXACA · Mexico

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

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A few weeks ago, I reported sighting either one (1) object glowing with many lights in the shape of a wide V, - or - many objects glowing as they traveled in a V-shape. That inspired me to continue watching the night sky, now that there have been 2 nights of totally clear sky. An hour earlier, i noticed a very unusual moon. I could see the entire moon in an opaque way, despite only a quarter shining. The night is perfectly clear. Around 8 pm, I noticed a very tiny dot of light traveling at what appeared to be a normal speed for small aircraft. However, there were no tracking lights. I watched the object for about one minute, as it drifted eastward, but then it instantly vanished. I kept watching where it would be if it had not blinked out, but never saw it again. I can imagine a drone being lit for a period of time to help establish it's location and then having its lights turned off for stealth purposes, but for what purpose? Northern Oaxaca City is not a hotbed of crime, as far as I know. That hooked me, so I continued watching that area of the sky, and perhaps ten minutes later, still looking at the northern sky, I saw a tiny light which had originally appeared next to a star. I noticed the object was moving, but not at a normal angle for aircraft. The airport is south of here, not north ! Only a mountain range is north. Satellite? It was moving downward at a 40-45 degree angle - so it is hard to believe it was a satellite or plane. A drone perhaps? A helicopter however, would not be able to land in the steep mountains to the north of my area. I am supposing the second object mentioned (which might have been the 1st object I saw) might have landed. It was headed toward the ground, but from a very high altitude.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165746). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: SEDENA (Mexico) · records window 2021-12-03 → 2021-12-20

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December 6, 2021 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT

Oaxaca City (Mexico), OAXACA · Mexico

A few weeks ago, I reported sighting what was either one (1) object glowing with many lights forming a wide V-shape - or - perhaps as many as twenty (20) bright objects glowing while forming a wide V-shape, high over the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. Cannot imagine migratory birds glowing bright at a high altitude and then blinking out. That event inspired me to keep watching the night sky when it is reasonably clear. Last night was perfectly clear. 8:00 PM: All of the moon was fully visible in an opaque way with a quarter of it shining brightly. 8:15 PM: I was looking at the northern sky where three stars form a triangle, or, pyramid-shape (when one connects the dots); * I noted what appeared to be a tiny star which appeared to be quite close to one of the two lower stars, but noticed it was moving slowly, the way a small plane would; * I considered it might be a satellite until it started going downward at a 60-degree angle, as though it were landing in the mountains; * The extreme altitude of the object, combined with the expansive and steep and thus uninhabitable mountains it was over (which define the northern limit of Oaxaca-City) surely could not be used for drug production/trafficking, so unlikely it was a police, govt, or private drone; 8:30 PM: In the same area over the mountains, I spotted a similar object (or the same object) at a high altitude, moving slowly. After about 20 seconds it instantly vanished; No trails, or tracking lights; No changing color; Only dull white light. Seemed to be very high up. Rhetorical Questions: Do satellites shine and then blink out? * I'm aware of what conventional aircraft look like as they approach the local airport; * Venus was shining big and bright as usual; * These objects seem to defy all the behavior of commercial craft, satellites, and drones. * Not sure if I mentioned that about two weeks ago, I watched an object over the same mountains on the north side of Oaxaca-City that moved slowly, stopped at went back the way it came, without swerving. It went back the way it came the way a car can simply stop and be put into reverse without turning. A few moments later, a commercial aircraft w/ ice-trail, heading west, flew 3,000 ft. under object. * Cheap, Samsung AO2s Phone cannot photograph, or make video of something so far away in the night sky. A Jet Flying Very Low Toward Airport Turns Off All LIghts? RE: Aerial objects that might blink out: It is only fair to mention that one night about two weeks ago, a small aircraft (either military, or commercial) was heading in the direction of the airport and almost over my apartment; About 2,000 meters before getting over my apartment, the vehicle turned off all it's lights. As it flew over, I could see it as a shadow and hear the jet-engines roaring. It is fair to conclude, Mexico's version of an FAA may be quite lax if such pilot behavior is tolerated.