Narrative:

Aircraft X reported there are parachutes off his left side less than half a mile at his altitude. He reported about a dozen parachutes. He adjusted his course to the right to miss them. He said that if he had stayed on V105 he would have hit them. We were not talking to any jump aircraft at AZ04 at the time. We then noticed a 1200 code maneuvering at 175. We tracked the aircraft and another IFR aircraft into tus had to adjust his course to miss the aircraft and he reported that it was an [aircraft Y]. I called the ZZZ jump school who told me that [aircraft Y] had flown in yesterday. [Jump school] briefed them for operations at ZZZ and then the pilot told them that they would be dropping at AZ04. [Jump school] told them that they needed to contact ZAB for operations at AZ04. I asked him if he had a contact number for the pilot. He said that he would try to have them contact us. We were able to have the pilot call the operations manager. The pilot admitted to doing a haho [high altitude high opening] drop at AZ04 without talking to ZAB. This pilot violated several far's and created a near mid-air with a non-participating aircraft operating IFR in the NAS. The number; frequency; several locations and type of jump operations in sector 46 is by far more than anywhere else in the world. The far's were never created for these types of operations. These operations; on an everyday basis; at several locations; create a very real hazard to the NAS. Every single controller that tries to maintain some sort of safety on that sector will tell you that the FAA will not take action to address the jump operations until someone dies. There will be a fatality in that sector due to jump operations in the very near future if these types of operations are allowed to continue. The far's need to be changed. There needs to be regulation in place that ensures that jump operations are contained in a tfr; warning area or restricted airspace. Aircraft should not be allowed to throw objects out the back of an airplane that will collide with other non-participating aircraft.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Center Controller reported skydivers that were not supposed to be dropping out of the sky; close to an aircraft that reported the parachutes.

Narrative: Aircraft X reported there are parachutes off his left side less than half a mile at his altitude. He reported about a dozen parachutes. He adjusted his course to the right to miss them. He said that if he had stayed on V105 he would have hit them. We were not talking to any jump aircraft at AZ04 at the time. We then noticed a 1200 code maneuvering at 175. We tracked the aircraft and another IFR aircraft into TUS had to adjust his course to miss the aircraft and he reported that it was an [Aircraft Y]. I called the ZZZ jump school who told me that [Aircraft Y] had flown in yesterday. [Jump School] briefed them for operations at ZZZ and then the pilot told them that they would be dropping at AZ04. [Jump school] told them that they needed to contact ZAB for operations at AZ04. I asked him if he had a contact number for the pilot. He said that he would try to have them contact us. We were able to have the pilot call the Operations Manager. The pilot admitted to doing a HAHO [High Altitude High Opening] drop at AZ04 without talking to ZAB. This pilot violated several FAR's and created a near mid-air with a non-participating aircraft operating IFR in the NAS. The number; frequency; several locations and type of jump operations in Sector 46 is by far more than anywhere else in the world. The FAR's were never created for these types of operations. These operations; on an everyday basis; at several locations; create a very real hazard to the NAS. Every single controller that tries to maintain some sort of safety on that sector will tell you that the FAA will not take action to address the jump operations until someone dies. There will be a fatality in that sector due to jump operations in the very near future if these types of operations are allowed to continue. The FAR's need to be changed. There needs to be regulation in place that ensures that jump operations are contained in a TFR; warning area or restricted airspace. Aircraft should not be allowed to throw objects out the back of an airplane that will collide with other non-participating aircraft.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.