Albuquerque, NM, USA
Former wife and I saw a saucer shaped craft, rotating counter clockwise, as seen from under-full moon night, or near- 1/4 to 1/2 mile a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-10-20
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-albuquerque-nm-1966-1cf2d2
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 4 New Mexico reports filed in 1966.
- Diamond craft made up 0.8% of 1960s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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