Albuquerque, NM, USA
Single orangish rectangle with rounded corners, no blinking. Took a smooth route and was very fast, and would decrease speed.; Vanished
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-21
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-albuquerque-nm-2012-8b9735
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 3 reports in the single month of December 2012.
In context
- One of 377 documented reports from Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 72 sightings in 2012.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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