CaseLight1998
Albuquerque, NM, USA
light in the sky heading west that changed color and like a rubberband it zipped back heading east into space disapearing in the stars
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-19
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3min
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-albuquerque-nm-1998-b838b0
Local cluster
Local cluster
August 1998 was a busy month for Albuquerque, NM: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 26 New Mexico reports filed in 1998.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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