CaseCircle2020
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Lights in sky changing directions
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-01
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-albuquerque-nm-2020-d2f3b9
Wave
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…
In context
- Albuquerque, NM has 377 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 82 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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