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NMPedia places the Farmington Armada in New Mexico's UFO folklore

The public-library guide identifies March 15-18, 1950 as the Farmington reporting window and cautions that New Mexico's famous UFO stories lack definitive physical evidence.

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Public Library includes the Farmington Armada in its NMPedia research guide. The entry gives the March 15-18 date range and describes a claim that a large share of the town's population witnessed the wave.

The guide is institutionally useful because it treats the event as researchable regional history while explicitly placing it in folklore and noting that definitive physical evidence is absent. That wording supports a disputed classification rather than an extraordinary conclusion.

NMPedia also links readers to library searches for Farmington and other New Mexico UFO topics. It is therefore a discovery and context source, not a primary witness record, and should be balanced with the contemporary newspaper trail.