NUFORC Reports for State NM

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	02/16/1995 19:26	Albuquerque	NM	USA		Man calls to report large disc witnessed by occupants of 7 cars 40 mi. NW of Albuquerque. Streaks off fast.	02/16/1995
Open	02/20/1995 13:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA		Retired Sandia Labs. engineer calls seeking plans for building UFO detector.	02/20/1995
Open	03/07/1995 04:00	Tucumcari	NM	USA		Man at mile marker 337 on I-40 sees strange light in distance descend to horizon. No tail or explosion.	03/08/1995
Open	06/22/1995 13:30	Raton	NM	USA		Two men installing TV dish witness strange obj. in clear sky. No visible wings, exhaust; silent. Very good view. Obj. drifted off.	06/28/1995
Open	07/25/1995 09:35	Ocate	NM	USA	Light	4 observers view 2 point of light above horizon moving erratically up and down. Darted off very rapidly. Miltary aircraft buzzed.	07/27/1995
Open	08/02/1995 19:34	Deming	NM	USA		Man sees TV coverage of obj. over Salida, CO (27AU95). He and many other bus riders W of Deming, NM, saw same object!	08/30/1995
Open	12/10/1995 06:00	Clayton	NM	USA		Nurse & daughter see 2 very bright objs. in a.m. sky, flashing red, white, blue lights in constant pattern. Both moved. Not stars.	12/10/1995
Open	12/12/1996 02:06	I-10, Marker 174	NM	USA		Truck driver & other trucks see 2x bright white lights, which split apart. 1 ascends vert., other paces truck, streaks. Many CB repts.	12/21/1996
Open	03/15/1988 19:30	Gallup (~10 miles west of on I-40)	NM	USA	Cylinder	Driving west on I-40 just after dark, saw lights strobing over median of hwy. Thought it might be a helicopter, but there was no noise	02/17/1997
Open	03/23/1997 16:30	Albuquerque (over, from Tent Rocks)	NM	USA	Other	have photograph 2,1/4 negative 250mm Zeis len.some detail not much. object hovered over albuquerque shining in the afternoon light.	04/30/1997
Open	10/01/1965 02:00	Desert	NM	USA	Disk	While traveling at night we saw what appeared to be a glowing dish in the distance about 600 yards away and 200 ft high. The car light	06/25/1997
Open	07/27/1997 21:30	Las Cruces	NM	USA	Light	Witness reports an "orange ball of light" at approx 500 feet from ground, was surrounded by helicopters circling it repeatedly. Number	08/19/1997
Open	07/22/1997 13:00	Arabela (near Roswell)	NM	USA	triangle	I was on a ranch that I was living on at the base of the capitain mountains, and was sitting outside the house under a tree, when he to	11/03/1997
Open	11/22/1997 17:30	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Other	A black object that at first looked like a hot air balloon, then a 747, then roundish. It appeared black against the twilight blue sky.	11/22/1997
Open	04/24/1994 00:01	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Sphere	I was on my way down from the Sandia Mountain peak ( on a tramway) when I saw a bright orange flash and an ornange ball of light speed	12/05/1997
Open	01/12/1973 03:00	Farmington (SE of, deserted area, Hwy 44)	NM	USA	Light	A large bright light apeared seemingly from nowhere.It followed my 18 wheeler for 1-2 min. then disapeared as quickly. It wasn't a pr.	01/13/1998
Open	03/12/1998 04:30	Red River	NM	USA	Cylinder	There were 2 extremely bright objects stationary in the sky, side by side for over 2 hours south of Red River	03/14/1998
Open	05/15/1962 21:00	Acoma	NM	USA	Cylinder	On this date my Mother and cousin and I were traveling west on the interstate40 ,between albuquerque and the lava fields outside acoma.	04/25/1998
Open	06/01/1997 23:00	Raton (South of; Ft. Lincoln rest stop)	NM	USA	Unknown	Observed unknown high speed, high altitude objects make non-balistic course changes.	05/17/1998
Open	06/01/1975 18:46	Cannon AFB/Clovis	NM	USA		unidentified flying objects sighted around Cannon AFB and Clovis NM. The rough year was 1975/1976.	05/21/1998
Open	05/28/1998 20:30	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Fireball	We saw the object in the sky south of Santa Fe just after sunset. It looked like a glowing white sphere against the indigo sky, and was	05/28/1998
Open	09/11/1998 00:00	Roswell	NM	USA	Diamond	My sister and I were driving south to Carlsbad and were about 5 to 10 miles outside of Roswell, NM. All of a sudden a bright, pulsat	09/24/1998
Open	06/25/1998 22:18	Las Cruces	NM	USA	Circle	My father and i were driving home from El Paso, Texas, to Las Cruses, New Mexico. Half way to las cruses,(which is about a 30 min. driv	07/04/1998
Open	01/03/1994 23:30	Albuquerque (30-60 miles west of city)	NM	USA	Triangle	Saw triangular craft approaching from horizon from the N.W., approached slowly, silently, and low to the ground. Passed directly over	07/09/1998
Open	01/27/1998 17:00	Las Cruces (on Interstate 10,west of)	NM	USA	Disk	Driving west on I-10 in N.M. we watched a HUGE object hover without moving for about 2 hours.	08/17/1998
Open	08/10/1998 06:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Fireball	Object seen streaking across sky, leaveing huge contrail, it was across the horizon over head, and heading east to west, along hwy40(ro	08/20/1998
Open	09/25/1998 23:00	Bosque Farms	NM	USA	Unknown	Well I was looking at the cresent moon with my celestron 4.5 telescope and I saw a shadow traveling across the moon.	09/26/1998
Open	09/22/1998 22:00	Cedar Crest	NM	USA	Fireball	Walking our dogs at 10:00 pm 9-22-98 looking south a large ball of light with a tail 3 times larger than the ball that sparked and flic	09/29/1998
Open	10/04/1998 02:45	Albuquerque	NM	USA		VERY bright white light, appeared to be about half the diameter of the moon.	10/05/1998
Open	07/15/1997 22:30	Las Cruces	NM	USA	Fireball	Orange, glowing ball moving at height of 50 to 300 feet over and around a city park (Apodaka Park). Pursued by 2--3 helos w/searchlight	10/12/1998
Open	03/19/1991 02:00	Chihuahua Mts (north of, mexican border)	NM	USA	Light	I was conducting survielance for the military on the Mexican border with ground survielance radar, rembass ground sensors, and night vi	10/30/1998
Open	05/28/1995 16:00	Deming (south of)	NM	USA	Unknown	travelling westbound on amtrak.....recorded object on video tape.....never timed it...just guessing....just found your website	11/07/1998
Open	07/02/1998 04:30	Bluewater Lake	NM	USA	Light	my son and i witnessed an orange light fly above the lake shore five different times in about a 20-25 min span. it made no sound and th	11/19/1998
Open	10/13/1998 02:30	Heron State Park (between Dulce and Taos)	NM	USA	Changing	Watched a strange light for about an hour. During its flight, it made numerous odd flight changes, including bouncing up and down like	12/22/1998
Open	12/15/1998 22:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Cross	large cross shaped ship flew over the city .	12/22/1998
Open	01/13/1999 07:15	Rio Rancho	NM	USA	Circle	Driving east from Rio Rancho into Albuquerque on Paseo Del Norte, I viewed a perfectly lit circle above the Sandia Mountains. The circ	01/13/1999
Open	06/01/1975 22:00	Clovis	NM	USA	Unknown	Saw oscillating light from a distance streak to the left then up and to the right out of sight so fast I could hardly believe what I ha	01/28/1999
Open	02/12/1999 17:10	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Sphere	object hovered due east.flickering brightness.disapeared.reappeared in different but close proximity C130's landing .	02/12/1999
Open	06/15/1998 11:00	Navajo Lake	NM	USA	Sphere	A Shiny (metalic) sphere was seen, by me, above a ridge. It was slowly moving away from my position at an altitude of apr. 500ft. The S	02/22/1999
Open	02/23/1999 19:00	Las Vegas/Montezuma	NM	USA	Light	Two horizontal, parallel rows of lights, approximately 1/4 mile up, moving from the south to the north.	02/24/1999
Open	11/01/1993 23:45	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Cigar	A colorful object was hovering over the Petroglyphs, which backed up to my back yard, and it had no sound.	03/03/1999
Open	10/01/1998 04:30	Rio Rancho	NM	USA	Fireball	Sighted during the major meteor shower last year.	03/03/1999
Open	03/16/1999 11:40	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Sphere	I saw a silver sphere shaped craft that was following in the contrail of a passenger or military aircraft.	03/16/1999
Open	06/01/1997 03:30	New Mexico	NM	USA	Disk	on hwy 10east going to elpaso texas.,,, slow moving object, passed right in front of me no sound, but had a bright light, just flooted	04/04/1999
Open	04/02/1999 22:03	Tijeras (south of)	NM	USA	Sphere	Very bright amber sphere traveled just above tree top level. Size of dime @ arms length. Object 50 - 300 yds away. Observed by myself &	04/06/1999
Open	04/07/1999 03:20	Las Cruces	NM	USA	Oval	Black disc with greenish/bluish/white corona traveled parallel with I10 between Las Cruces and El Paso.	04/14/1999
Open	04/22/1999 23:40	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Triangle	I was looking out the east facing window of my bedroom when I noticed three dim amber colored lights that seemingly appeared out of now	04/22/1999
Open	04/22/1999 22:50	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Fireball	A red & green light streaked across the sky, south of Osuna, from East to West then dissappeared.	04/28/1999
Open	10/29/1998 18:45	Los Alamos (viewed from)	NM	USA	Unknown	Went outside at approximately 18:40, and witnessed a very large non-random group of white lights located to the east to slightly southe	01/04/1999
Open	01/05/1999 20:00	Alamogordo	NM	USA	Disk	LARGE BRITE WHITE SAUCER SPED ACROSS THE SKY; STOPPED HOVERED APROX.5 MIN. SHOT STRAIGHT UP;DISSAPEARED.	01/05/1999
Open	10/03/1996 20:00	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Rectangle	Thought it was a plane coming FROM the SE (moving NNW), it moved at a very regular plane-like speed. Felt it might have been a militar	05/15/1999
Open	04/10/1999 02:58	VLA Radio Telescope (near, Hwy. 60)	NM	USA	Light	LIGHT THE SIZE OF SILVER DOLLAR AT ARM'S LENGTH SEEN HOVERING JUST ABOVE HIGHWAY. RAPIDLY CHANGING COLORS FROM WHITE-RED-BLUE-GREEN-ORA	05/14/1999
Open	06/20/1965 02:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Disk	Traveling in a pick up truck, we saw a bright glowing green disk fly over us. It made the engine & electrical of the truck stop immedi	05/20/1999
Open	04/18/1999 19:00	New Mexico (southern)	NM	USA	Other	witnessed 5 to 6 aleins glowing red in color on the ground under crafts lights.	06/05/1999
Open	06/10/1999 23:50	Cuba	NM	USA	Triangle	two women witness a triangular shaped craft	06/15/1999
Open	08/27/1998 23:00	Villa Nueva State Park	NM	USA	Cigar	steadily moved across the sky & then hovered, 2x, creating a triangle formation & then dissapearing.	07/03/1999
Open	06/30/1997 23:00	Tijeras	NM	USA	Cigar	steadily moved across the sky & then hovered, 2x, creating a triangle formation & then dissapearing.	07/03/1999
Open	06/29/1999 16:00	Navajo Lake	NM	USA	Cigar	shiney object moved across the sky horizontally & did not appear to be a plane.	07/03/1999
Open	06/30/1999 23:20	Herron Lake State Park	NM	USA	Cigar	2 separate sightings- just minutes apart, may have been the same object.	07/03/1999
Open	07/03/1999 01:30	Albuquerque	NM	USA		Fireball streak across the sky; and two semi-trucks stopped side by side in the desert in the middle of the night on I-40 E in New Mexi	07/04/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:18	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Unknown	An extremely bright flash of light lit up the sky and groud and appeared to travel from SW to NE.	08/19/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:10	Jemez Springs	NM	USA	Unknown	Brightly lighted clouds observed.	08/20/1999
Open	06/10/1999 22:30	Albuquerque (near)	NM	USA	Light	Two VERY bright "stars" ...one on left suddenly moved across sky to left in downward arc and up then stopped abruptly. Object on right	08/25/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:00	Rio Rancho/Bernillo (between)	NM	USA	Other	my mom and i were driving home from work we saw the sky lite up almost like day light a few seconds later we saw this trail like thing	08/27/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:18	Gallup/Albuquerque (between)	NM	USA		We were driving East on I40 toward Alb when I saw a flash of blue light that lit up the whole sky. I saw no craft with this light. li	08/29/1999
Open	08/15/1999 22:30	Socorro	NM	USA	Other	Falling object.	08/27/1999
Open	01/01/1999 21:00	Coyoty Canyon	NM	USA	Disk	My brother in-law and i were coming back from gallup and we were going east bound on hwy 9 and i saw to the south east a object that wa	08/26/1999
Open	08/28/1999 18:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA		It looked like a long silver gray parasail canopy. Huge. Swooped down over the city & quickly shot up where it stayed on a fairly e	08/29/1999
Open	06/29/1997 23:45	Farmington (Approx. 3 miles N of)	NM	USA	Unknown	Saw what appeared to be two satellites flying in formation, but don't believe that objects were satellites or airplanes.	09/06/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:18	Tularosa	NM	USA	Flash	Just to let you know the light over Aztec N.M. was seen here also. It was reported by Joel Vincent on AM 1270 for several days after	09/08/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:18	Bosque	NM	USA		Bright bluish-greenish-white light trail splitting into multiple radians	09/08/1999
Open	12/01/1998 22:30	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Other	Craft floated over, truck stopped, while I was getting truck off road, left. Truck wouldn't start. Pieces magnetized and stuck on ins	09/11/1999
Open	09/01/1994 16:00	Tucumcari (on I-40 westbound)	NM	USA	Triangle	WAS TRAVELING WEST BOUND I-40 WEST OF TUCUMCARI NM AND OBSERVED A TRINGULAR OBJECT MOVING AT MY SPEED CLOSER TO ME THAN THE BACK DROP T	09/11/1999
Open	08/15/1999 22:30	Los Lunas	NM	USA		I saw a bright flash through my skylights (facing West) in my home on August 15. I verified that I checked out a movie on that day rece	09/18/1999
Open	10/13/1999 09:45	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Disk	while driving east something unusuall grabed my sight to the sky, there was 3 objects (plus 2 fighters afar)i kept looking at them and	10/14/1999
Open	06/15/1995 19:30	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Disk	Three disk shaped objects appeared to the north. Objects were blue in color, nearly the color of the background sky. They were about ha	10/24/1999
Open	08/20/1959 03:00	Lake Bonita	NM	USA	Fireball	It landed and lit up the mountian like day. there were some sort of peoplw with lights that where they put them it wasa like daylight.	11/07/1999
Open	11/06/1999 20:30	Chaco Canyon	NM	USA	Other	Viewed a single craft, followed in approx 1 minute by three more. The crafts were long thin enlongated rectangles, appearing as flying	11/09/1999
Open	08/01/1985 01:00	Cimarron	NM	USA	Circle	three males observed a low altitude craft pass silently overhead and was then joined by three others in incredible aerial manuevers. l	12/03/1999
Open	08/15/1999 23:18	Las Cruces	NM	USA	Fireball	a close friend of mine witnessed the same phenomenon (sp?) that was reported in northern new mexico 250 miles south of albuquerque, in	12/13/1999
Open	12/22/1999 19:15	White Sands	NM	USA	Light	A starlike object descended vertically for 2 minutes changing color from a very bright white to gold the closer it got to the ground.	12/31/1999
Open	11/22/1992 00:00	Deming (I-10 NEAR, RT 11)	NM	USA	Cigar	SAW LARGE GRAY CIGAR SHAPED OBJECT HOVERING OVER DESERT AREA SOUTH OF I 10.NOT A BLIMP NO LIGHTS NO CABLES NO MOTORS TO LARGE TO BE ANY	01/11/2000
Open	10/15/1999 03:00	Clines Corners (I-40 Eastbound)	NM	USA	Light	Was traveling eastbound on I-40 in New Mexico around 3:00am. Noticed to the southwest and southeast numerous flashing bright blue light	01/19/2000
Open	01/26/2000 21:45	Sante Fe (near)	NM	USA	Other	3-5 round yellow lights appearing on parallel course at tip of wing of commercial aircraft then changing position to parallel back of w	01/27/2000
Open	08/24/1998 13:00	Albuquerque (Outside of)	NM	USA	Triangle	My family and I were driving through the United States, and my father took a back road...and we stopped the car to take pictures of the	02/02/2000
Open	10/20/1966 02:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Diamond	Former wife and I saw a saucer shaped craft, rotating counter clockwise, as seen from under-full moon night, or near- 1/4 to 1/2 mile a	02/10/2000
Open	09/01/1991 20:30	Alamagordo (Holloman AFB)	NM	USA	Oval	We were out side talking. I noticed a star that was orange. Then it began to move at speeds and G's thats humans can't handle.	02/24/2000
Open	02/29/2000 20:45	Las Vegas	NM	USA	Sphere	female called our office advised that about 2045 she saw a "very pretty green light in the sky" was north of Las Vegas NM	02/28/2000
Open	03/19/2000 09:05	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Oval	white/silvery elliptical craft seen 45 degrees above horizon, due west, circling in the air rapidly before speeding off northwest.	03/21/2000
Open	09/05/1995 18:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Triangle	It moved fast and stopped over my head. Then, it hovered for 10 sec. before it speed off like it had turned. But the object never turne	03/26/2000
Open	04/04/2000 05:20	Sedillo Hill	NM	USA	Light	Ball of light eminating several red "beams".	04/04/2000
Open	04/16/2000 10:25	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Rectangle	saw first light, then second light, parked car to better observe, and saw third light light seemed very high alt. light intensity fluct	04/16/2000
Open	04/17/2000 20:00	Santa Fe	NM	USA	Cylinder	I was closing the kitchen curtains when I glanced upward and saw a bright, yellow cylinder, very sparkly moving slowly--I thought it wa	04/19/2000
Open	12/01/1981 19:00	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Rectangle	Rectangular, checkmark shaped craft in NM near Albu. in Dec. 1981	06/01/2000
Open	05/28/2000 20:00	White Sands	NM	USA	Light	bright lights playing tic-tac-toe in the sky for over 2 hours	05/31/2000
Open	06/03/2000 14:00	Placitas	NM	USA	Circle	Translucent balloon moved INTO the wind.	06/03/2000
Open	06/03/2000 20:30	Bluewater Village	NM	USA	Oval	Large, bright, stationary, oval object spotted in Western New Mexico skies, that the sighting lasted about 40 minutes.	06/03/2000
Open	06/03/2000 14:30	Albuquerque	NM	USA	Sphere	Saw a large, bright, spherical object being stationery in windy skies over the Albuquerque International Airport.	06/08/2000
Open	06/03/2000 20:00	Bluewater Village	NM	USA	Disk	update on previous report	07/03/2000
Open	05/01/1999 21:00	Portales	NM	USA	Formation	Briefly observed an asymmetrical v-shaped formation of 7 solid, silent, unblinking lights.	07/06/2000
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation