CaseFormation1989

Albuquerque, NM, USA

14 lighted objects on a clear night in New Mexico.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-20
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
less than 10 minutes
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
formation-over-albuquerque-nm-1989-34fd6b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
  • This case is one of 4 New Mexico reports filed in 1989.
  • Formation craft made up 2.5% of 1980s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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