Albuquerque, NM, USA
My husband and I were driving home and my husband looked up and said, "What is that" I looked up and we pulled over so we cou
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-31
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-albuquerque-nm-2015-af0837
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Albuquerque, NM in December 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Albuquerque, NM has 377 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 78 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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