Alamogordo, NM, USA
Outside @~ 8:00pm on the E bench of the mountains above the city. We noticed some orange orbs flashing on and off north of the base.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-22
- Where
- Alamogordo, NM, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.900, -105.960 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-alamogordo-nm-2016-5837ce
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
Alamogordo, NM logged 3 reports in the single month of February 2016.
In context
- One of 24 documented reports from Alamogordo, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 78 sightings in 2016.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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