CaseDiamond2005

Grants/Albuquerque, NM, USA

we were driving on I 40 E, a long diamond shaped craft appeared on the passenger side, approximately 300 ft in length with flashing red

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-06
Where
Grants/Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 - 10 minutes
Geo
35.148, -107.853 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-grants-albuquerque-nm-2005-7d5d12
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Grants/Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 34 sightings in 2005.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.4%).

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