Albuquerque, NM, USA
This object was flying over the mountains and looked as if a full moon was flying through the sky. This was a massive bright sphere.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-02
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-albuquerque-nm-2017-6e8857
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 — 3 Albuquerque, NM reports filed in May 2017.
In context
- Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
- 82 reports came from New Mexico in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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