UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Albuquerque (near), NM, USA

Circle shape to the west staying mostly in one spot as light fades it gets harder to see. Smaller than the moon but way bigger than a

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-22
Where
Albuquerque (near), NM, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
An hour or so
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
circle-over-albuquerque-near-nm-2012-3de826
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Albuquerque (near), NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 72 sightings in 2012.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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