Light over Sandia Park, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
8 points of light slightly brighter than a star that were in a straight line equally spaced all moving together at the speed of an aircraft. Each one disappeared one after the other in equal time until they were all gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #162143). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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March 21, 2018 · 10:50 PM · FLASH
Sandia Park, NM
AT 20:50 to approximately 20:54 mountain time, I looked towards the north sky and a flashing light caught my attention. I proceeded to watch it for about 60 seconds, before I knocked on the window to call my wife outside. Still looking to the north I pointed at the sky to my wife and she started to track the same flashing light. The light had an ebb and a flow to it, sometimes flashing brilliantly and other times more like an aircraft collision light through some haze. I stepped into the yard to land mark the Big Dipper so I could reference some trajectory. I found it a bit further north and west than the north star, a third of the distance past the north star to the big dipper in distance. In the next four minutes it shifted closer than the north star and further east of it at an approximate degree shift of 25 to 30 degrees. During one of the blinks I saw it shift nearly 5 degrees in the sky before that particularly bright prolonged flash ended. The flashes metered 2-6 seconds in interval, and only lasted a second or two per flash. The flashes lacked an exact meter of interval. The movement was mostly left to right which is West to East. Sometimes the object blinked stationary. Other times it would move several degrees East South East. The type of light emission ranged between a super bright star to a dim star. White in color base.
April 6, 2015 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Sandia Park, NM
White light in circular form. Larger than a planet but could have been Venus but seemed very rage. Tried to take detailed photographs in the night but had trouble focusing. Were able to get some photos and video. The object was see from sandia Park looking West over the Sandias. We called relatives in Rio Rancho and they could see what they thought was Venus. Our sighting was high in the Western night shy. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) 9:15 PM...21:15. We loaded the iPhone night sky map. It was Venus. ((END ADDENDUM))