Albuquerque, NM, USA
Traveling in a pick up truck, we saw a bright glowing green disk fly over us. It made the engine & electrical of the truck stop immedi
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-20
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-albuquerque-nm-1965-c0051a
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
- Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from New Mexico in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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