NUFORC Sighting 149608

Occurred: 2019-10-07 16:45 Local
Reported: 2019-10-07 18:46 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes


Location: Carlsbad, NM, USA

Shape: Teardrop


Inverted teardrop with 'Y' shaped shadow changed color/reflectivity with the sunset

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.

Posted 2019-12-01

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