Albuquerque, NM, USA
Christmas Eve 2013 headed South leaving Albuquerque, saw a craft that looked like a spinning top with rings spinning around it,
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-24
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-albuquerque-nm-2013-e424ce
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 4 reports in the single month of December 2013.
In context
- One of 377 documented reports from Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 87 sightings in 2013.
- Cone sightings ran at 0.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.4%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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