Albuquerque, NM, USA
((HOAX??))Me and kid saw huge bubble like orbs around us and was moving and glowing. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-12-16
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3+ hours
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-albuquerque-nm-2018-f5a1ac
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 — 5 Albuquerque, NM reports filed in December 2018.
In context
- Albuquerque, NM shows up 377 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from New Mexico in 2018.
- 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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