Albuquerque, NM, USA
Large flash of light in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible flare from an Iridium satellite? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-06-02
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-albuquerque-nm-2018-9a38bb
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.
- 60 reports came from New Mexico in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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