Albuquerque, NM, USA
Lights in formation, stopped, changed formation, then continued along their previous direction.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-07-15
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- less than 1 min.
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-albuquerque-nm-1977-709ec2
Part of a wave
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Local cluster
July 1977 was a busy month for Albuquerque, NM: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 377 reports logged in Albuquerque, NM.
- This case is one of 6 New Mexico reports filed in 1977.
- Formation craft made up 1.3% of 1970s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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