Albuquerque, NM, USA
We watch a orange light on the E side of town move from L to R. We then saw it drop what looked like a long line.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-13
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-albuquerque-nm-2016-ca4edf
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
January 2016 was a busy month for Albuquerque, NM: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 78 New Mexico reports filed in 2016.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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