CaseCigar2014

Albuquerque, NM, USA

This morning, while stopped at a red light at Academy and Wyoming, I noticed what looked like an airplane at 35000 feet (traveling NE),

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-06-28
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-albuquerque-nm-2014-dbaa77
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 377 documented reports from Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 110 sightings in 2014.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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