Albuquerque, NM, USA
White/red ligth on North Side of Albuquerque 9/13/14. ((NUFORC Note: High-altitude, helium-filled balloon. PD))
Report quality: Moderate50/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-09-13
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45+ minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-albuquerque-nm-2014-0dcf13
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…
Local cluster
Albuquerque, NM logged 8 reports in the single month of September 2014.
In context
- One of 377 documented reports from Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 110 sightings in 2014.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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