Albuquerque, NM, USA
Was driving East bound on I40 was getting off at the Rio Grande exit. As I was exiting the freeway I noticed in my upper left Periphera
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-28
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-albuquerque-nm-2020-8f087b
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 6 reports in the single month of July 2020.
In context
- One of 377 documented reports from Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 82 sightings in 2020.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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