Albuquerque, NM, USA
Looked like a bright white circular object with no movement in the sky. As the sun went down it turned reddish orange.
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: 21600s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-13
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-albuquerque-nm-2014-4e7e06
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
September 2014 was a busy month for Albuquerque, NM: 8 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 110 New Mexico reports filed in 2014.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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