CaseCylinder2012

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Two dimmed lights traveling at insanely high speeds with no noise.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-11
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
12 seconds
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-albuquerque-nm-2012-3288cf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 shows up 377 times across the archive.
  • 72 reports came from New Mexico in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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