CaseCircle2018

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Round reflective object in the sky over Albuquerque, NM. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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.

  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-08-25
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
>20 minutes
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
circle-over-albuquerque-nm-2018-7f94e7
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

  • Albuquerque, NM has 377 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 60 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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