Albuquerque, NM, USA
Large bright cylindical UFO observed for 15 min. ((NUFORC Note: Helium-filled balloon at high altitude. PD))
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2013-09-21
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-albuquerque-nm-2013-6208fe
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 2013 was a busy month for Albuquerque, NM: 7 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 87 New Mexico reports filed in 2013.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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