SIGHTING: ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"The sighting was of up to 10 or so whitish-orange lights moving upwards slowly from ne to e, which faded out, one by one at the same height. i was standing outside at midnight as is my new year's tradition when i spotted three glowing white-orange dots. they were low to the ne, rising slowly and steadily up southwards. the top two made a sharp curve west and faded out. by the time the third, flickering slightly, slowly faded from view, 5 or 6 more in a loose constellation followed it in the same direction, disappearing one by one. a very bright one appeared afterwards, taking the same curved route as the first two. it took nearly 10 minutes for the whole spectacle to play out. i'm not sure of the exact number because once i realized they were not helicopters, i was busy trying to get a picture. later, i thought they might have been fire balloons -- until i saw the one photo that came out. i did not see any meandering motions at all. so those wild orange swirls in the photo are the motions of the white-orange dots within the fraction of a second it took to snap the photo. they are not the result of camera motion because 1) they are not at all the same, and 2) that bright green squiggle across the lower left is a string of christmas tree lights across the street, and it's absolutely unblurred and crisp. i've enhanced color and contrast to make the trails more visible but that's all. the interesting thing is that my first ufo sighting was also of three glowing orbs and happened at the same place exactly two years to the minute on new years 2015 -- which is why i had the camera ready, though i never expected to see them again. "