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Light over Albuquerque, NM

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Let me start off by saying I am a firm believer that there is some weird ((deleted--stuff)) going on call it aliens or whatever but I'm a 19 year old native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, so I have heard the UFO stories of Roswell and other UFO stories that birth from New Mexico, but this one I was able to experience first-hand and up close. this was the scariest thing i have experienced but it has left me wondering if anyone else witnessed this. At about 11:00 p.m through 12:00 a.m February 19, 2019, (Just Last night) in Albuquerque I noticed a formation of three dots starting on the Northwest side of our Mountains (Sandia Mountains). As I stared closer these dots were actually moving simultaneously south going along the base of the mountains. These lights were the brightest lights in the city so I thought maybe a search party along the mountains or something with a logical explanation but the longer I stared the more intrigued I became at how they were just able to float and connect to each other in synchronicity, so I got in my truck and drove up Paseo Del Norte eastbound towards the Sandias where the lights were floating and slowly moving. As I got closer to the lights they became almost mesmerizing and bear with me but seemed like an acid trip or some sort of hallucinogenic matrix within those light formations but the even weirder part is once I was at the street, Louisiana, still going up Paseo, it started to smell so foul almost like rotten eggs or rotting bodies, this was a clear indicator that whatever was up on those mountains was creating some sort of disgusting gas or odor which made me almost delusional and confused. I immediately turned around and went home to get my brother so I could have a witness. (My iPhone 6s could not pick up ((deleted--stuff)) on the camera). After picking up my brother from the west-side of town, we drove to a small hill that overlooks the city and fair enough the lights were there and moving pretty close to were the Sandia Casino is and at that point I had enough and went home. There is a YouTube video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEHxfKn6dVo&list=LLp59OiX9hU9cvilK9Ckf3bw&t=0s&index=3) The video shows 2 lights that are exactly like one of the many bright lights I saw last night. I'm glad I found this video since I was not able to get a video or a picture of the actual event. Another statement to add was that these lights started on the north side of the bas! e of the mountain and 'floated' to the south side of the base of that mountain in such a strange manner, almost like the way programs can stack on top of each other on a computer. Like if there is a virus spamming a bunch of programs on a computer. It may be smart to add that there is a military base on the south side area where the UFO's were floating to (Kirtland Air-force Base, Manzano Base)

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144939). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-02-16 → 2019-03-05

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