Albuquerque, NM, USA
My son and grand daughter went outside to watch fireworks on NYE 2020/2021 , I told them too cold so I did not go w them. My granddaugh
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-01
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- :30
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-albuquerque-nm-2021-c18a0c
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…
In context
- Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
- 48 reports came from New Mexico in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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