UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Albuquerque, NM, USA

A black object that at first looked like a hot air balloon, then a 747, then roundish. It appeared black against the twilight blue sky.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-11-22
Where
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
35.084, -106.651 · exact
Slug
other-over-albuquerque-nm-1997-3a76b9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 377 documented reports from Albuquerque, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 24 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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