CaseFlash1997
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Two crafts flying onto field
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-05
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-albuquerque-nm-1997-86d546
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 24 New Mexico reports filed in 1997.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.