Albuquerque, NM, USA
A gaint greyish football moving through the sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-07-24
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-albuquerque-nm-1977-0cdce6
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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.
- Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.