Albuquerque (Kirtland AFB), NM, USA
Saw formation of a lot shape with bright orange lights hovering over Albuquerque airport area. All were little then faded.
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-28
- Where
- Albuquerque (Kirtland AFB), NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15-30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-albuquerque-kirtland-afb-nm-2014-5fb2e4
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Albuquerque (Kirtland AFB), NM shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 110 reports came from New Mexico in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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