UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Albuquerque, NM, USA

red glowing object in daytime sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-04-15
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
disk-over-albuquerque-nm-1978-126250
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from New Mexico in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.