Albuquerque, NM, USA
Around 1-2pm a jet black Angled object about 2500ft altitude, est. 200ft to 400ft long point to tip to point, drifted along West to Eas
Report quality: High81/100
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
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-14
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-albuquerque-nm-2018-448e4f
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Albuquerque, NM reports filed in December 2018.
In context
- Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from New Mexico in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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