CaseCircle1999
Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Driving east from Rio Rancho into Albuquerque on Paseo Del Norte, I viewed a perfectly lit circle above the Sandia Mountains. The circ
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-13
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rio-rancho-nm-1999-120040
In context
- Rio Rancho, NM shows up 45 times across the archive.
- 35 reports came from New Mexico in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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