CaseSphere1999
Tijeras (south of), NM, USA
Very bright amber sphere traveled just above tree top level. Size of dime @ arms length. Object 50 - 300 yds away. Observed by myself &
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-02
- Where
- Tijeras (south of), NM, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.081, -106.388 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-tijeras-south-of-nm-1999-bea7b9
In context
- Tijeras (south of), NM shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 35 reports came from New Mexico in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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