UFOMYST
CaseSphere1945

Roswell, NM, USA

A witness in Roswell, New Mexico reported a sphere-shaped object moving across the sky, observed for about one minute in December 1945.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1945-12-15
Where
Roswell, NM, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
33.394, -104.525 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-roswell-nm-1945-0fc832
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1944–1945

    The Foo Fighters

    European and Pacific theaters of WWII

    Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 51 documented reports from Roswell, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Mexico logged 2 sightings in 1945.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 4.5% during the 1940s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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