CaseLight2008

Albuquerque, NM, USA

In the ssw, about degrees above the horizon, seemingly under some low clouds, my wife and I saw an upright cylinder shaped light that w

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-10-06
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5min
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
light-over-albuquerque-nm-2008-46f702
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Albuquerque, NM in October 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Albuquerque, NM has 377 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 59 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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