UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Sandia Park, NM, USA

Strange white spherical object in the western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness later identifies the object to be Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-04-06
Where
Sandia Park, NM, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
35.168, -106.366 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sandia-park-nm-2015-49a68b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Sandia Park, NM has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 78 reports from New Mexico.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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