CaseSphere1996
Albuquerque (Manzano Mountains), NM, USA
A bright purple sphere Hoovers then uses some type of warp drive to dissappear.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-11-15
- Where
- Albuquerque (Manzano Mountains), NM, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-albuquerque-manzano-mountains-nm-1996-8f9e37
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Albuquerque (Manzano Mountains), NM.
- This case is one of 10 New Mexico reports filed in 1996.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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