UFOMYST
CaseCircle1989

Interstate 40, AZ, USA

UFO low and slow eastbound over I-40 between Flagstaff and Albuquerque

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-05-15
Where
Interstate 40, AZ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
circle-over-interstate-40-az-1989-87b8ef
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Interstate 40, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 13 sightings in 1989.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.2% during the 1980s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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