CaseLight2002

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Albuquerque, NM, USA
Start: 2002-08-27
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA

High velocity redish-orange light makes 90 degree turn without deceleration.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (76 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2002-08-27
Where: Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape: Light
Duration: 30 seconds
Geo: 35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug: light-over-albuquerque-nm-2002-a17c6b

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Albuquerque, NM reports filed in August 2002.

In context

Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
46 reports came from New Mexico in 2002.
In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Flash · Albuquerque, NM<1 km · 4d apart
Other · Albuquerque, NM<1 km · 14d apart
Circle · Albuquerque, NM<1 km · 16d apart

Report

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