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New Mexico UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,661 UFO sighting reports in New Mexico to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (335 reports, 20.17% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (203 reports, 12.22% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (263 reports, 15.83% of total).
- 10/01/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (11 reports, 0.66% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (110 reports, 6.62% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (661 reports, 39.80% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in New Mexico
These New Mexico UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Flash bulb-like lights against a clear, dark sky. We were taking pictures of the moon and stars against the backdrop of the dunes at White Sands. I turned around and was surprised to see these odd lights flashing randomly in the sky.
The light haze on the horizon is coming from Holloman AFB. I couldn't determine a shape and didn't see standard aircraft (colored) lights. At a couple of moments, the lights stayed solid, and we assumed perhaps they were facing our direction at that point.
Someone suggested they may be helicopters. The sky was very clear that night. In the video, I identify Arturus and Sirius.
The moon was overhead and behind me, just over Jupiter, but I don't think I caught that in this video. Https://youtu.be/pGf9LDYZIA0?si=dohCGHsKjbDprN70.
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Photo of Diamond-Shaped Silver Object I observed this fast moving, diamond - shaped object moving from Northwest to Southeast over my house. It was at a pretty high altitude and I only got one photo of it before it disappeared. I could not see it with the video function on my phone after did try to quickly zoom in on it after I took the photo and before it disappeared.
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I did not see the exact sighting, and I’m not entirely sure what it is but it was caught on my security camera I caught a sequence of light that looked like something was taking off into the sky very quickly and left a jetstream of circles behind it. It was caught on my security camera and I noticed it the next morning. It is motion and sound and I noticed the security camera starts a few seconds before you can actually see the siding to the left in the sky, I also noticed my neighbors motion sensor light came on also.
Please email or call me with any questions. Also, let me know if you figure out what this is. Thank you.
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My parent’s ring camera capture the object slowly moving across the sky at 12-12 am to 1:10 am, it traveled from south to north. The ring camera captured a bright object going south to north just after midnight on the 15th of March, 2024. I have retained a copy of the video showing the crossing the sky with time stamp.
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We witnessed a hazy orb of light approach from the sunset SW horizon cross overhead and change from a a hazy cloud into a single light During the twilight moments after sunset a cloudy orb crossed the sky above my home. When I first saw it I knew that it was a UAP because it makes ves across th sky with a cloudy sphere that surrounded the UAP. As it moved across the sky it ejected sections of the cloud until an event when the entire cloudy spherical mass around it burst away froward in front of its trajectory.
At that point there the orb transformed into a single white light that then appeared to travel in a different direction and disappear in the distance.
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Two luminous orbs of light, no exterior propulsion, highly maneuverable I was driving home at dusk and noticed an object that looked like a super large bright star in the sky of in the city skyline, it got brighter and a helicopter approached it. The object began to fly west toward where I was driving & I noticed it was actually two orb objects, no external propulsion mechanisms, no artificial light but seemed to be made of light, they looked like stars and moved in a fluid way, changing orientation to each other. The objects were followed by a helicopter with a blinking red tail light.
They were traveling at a fast speed but could tell how fast, the objects moved closer together as they got further away. I pulled over and recorded a short couple videos of the objects until they flew out of sight exiting the city limits. There is some glare and reflection from my car interior but the objects in the sky are distinct.
I took a couple still shot close ups from the videos as well. These objects were like nothing I have ever seen before.
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watched from my front porch i was out side with my wife and saw this faded light to the west coming at us heading east and it was changing from a blured white to a bright shinny object about three different time it changed the same way ! and when i down loaded the video you can see when it changes from blured white to bright it shoots out a round puff or cloud from it !! it headed south east from my house and headed towards the kirkland air force base when it dissapered out of sight !!.
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Flashing green and red light not a plane or satellite. I caught movement out of the corner of my eye while sitting on the porch at 8:20 pm. It looked like a moving star- slow but steady, and clearly pulsed red/green as it moved in various directions, stopping abruptly, then moving again.
This was in the first several seconds. I had my iPhone 15 Pro Max and got the video started. I got 5:16 of video.
I was able to lean against the framework of the porch and get a generally steady video, not jumpy or shaky. The light moved around and stopped, being stationary several seconds at a time. Finally, a second similar light comes into view.
The first light suddenly flares white very brightly and spiky. It was dazzling, then sped off in a split second. My wife came out at one point, you can hear us talking as she asks from the doorway what I’m doing.
She comes out and sees the same thing, describing it some as well.
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2 orbs different shapes, or 1 orb changing shape Looked up videos. Looked down to edit. Looked up, much lower, different shape and color.
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Some sort of sliver object static in the sky against clouds. We were driving down the i10 heading to las crucas nm. I am always looking out at the sky’s and scenery on outlet long drives.
My eyesight is shockingly good and I would put my ability to spot things from a long way off up against anyone. Off my right side I say it up agains some clouds and it appeared at first to look similar to a smaller cloud closer than the backdrop clouds but it was far whiter than the others. I told my wife look at this thing.
The color is too white to be natural. As we continued to drive we kept looking back at it and I would estimate it was about a mile from us based on how the angle was changing gradually against the clouds behind it. I then asked my wife to take some pictures which she did.
I continued looking back at it and it did not move it was still static. I would have thought it could have been a large balloon tethered however we were having 20-40mph winds at the time so that would have been moving all over the place. Anyways.
We continued on our way as I was towing at 45ft trailer or I would have driver into the desert to investigate. Made our way to Roswell and went to the ufo museum where we met Dennis Balthaser. He looked at the photos and what I was describing and he recommended I submit this to you.
I’ll send a few photos. Happy to discuss if you have any other questions. Thanks Nathan.
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I was looking outside to check if it was snowing and saw a white foggy circle moving wherever and in the same spot. btw I couldn’t get a good picture since I’m in my house and can’t go outside since it’s currently midnight.
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Appears to be a rocket, but no reported launch that day on rocketlaunch.live.
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Blimp or hot air balloon like object just below cloud line, never moved for 30 minutes. Dark to metalic depending on angle. South Deming, NM, approximately over Columbus, NM, my girlfriend and I spotted a stationary object in the sky while traveling west on I-10 at approximately 2:30 pm local time.
We proceeded to keep an eye on the object as we traveled until I-10 curved and it was hard to look back and see it. Duration was roughly 30 minutes. The object did not move, stayed just below the cloud line, and did not change in shape, although the color changed from black (when we were east of it) to silver (when we were directly north), and white (when we were west).
There were no visible lights. Clouds moved around it so it was not a cloud. Shape stayed fairly consistent as that of cross between a blimp and hot air ballon, but it was clearly neither.
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3 videos available. One Video it's Coming to my house. Next video it's there for several seconds LOUD BUZZING .
3rd video GONE Like Nothing. In the videos you will see a Shed. In the shed is Myself doing Laundry during the Appearance of the Object.
While I was in the Shed doing laundry I did Not have the washer on only the Dryer and I heard a Loud HORRID Buzzing Noise. In my area there are Vehicles with Loud Exhaust also Polaris's and Various Country Vehicles but you can see in the videos there is no traffic at all. If you look to the Let of that shed you will see my home Stops a Street with a Stop sign.
When I heard that Horrid Sound I thought it was a Vehicle just Idling there like some kind of 18 Wheeler or something but No because look at the Date and Time at night. My videos are only 5 Seconds I'm afraid. I captured them on my Blink Security System so I hope that is ok? One more thing.
in the video you will see a Street Light in the property. Street Lights are Yellow and all the same Amber Like Tone. The Object is so blinding in the video I can only imagine what it would have looked like if I had enough Light to turn the Color on the Cameras on.
It was too Loud to be a Drone and way too Bright to me so let me know what you guys think. Also one very last thing.in the videos you will Notice dogs in my property they are the Neighbors dogs and they took off in two different Directions in those Videos on my property but those dogs across the street where that light appeared.
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1 orb with hazy aura Aura was around the object, no clouds were in sight so it is unexplained why it looked like that, Moved at a low-high rate of speed southeast.
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Glowing pure white circular orb with halo and small brighter circular center that comprised about 10% of the area of the orb. The object was a very prominent pure white orb with a contiguous white halo and a brighter circular center about one tenth its overall diameter. It was seen for about five minutes traveling through a clear dark sky prior to the moon rising.
The object, including its halo, was about the diameter of the mid-day sun. It was traveling at a constant pace from West to East approximately 70 degrees up from the southwest horizon. The object appeared to be within the atmosphere.
An approximation of its size would depend on its altitude but it was far larger than a commercial aircraft, satellite, surveillance balloon or meteorite. An approximation of its speed would also depend on its altitude. If it was flying at 30,000 feet I would approximate its speed as twice to three times that of a commercial jet or military transport.
If it was in orbit it would be traveling about the speed of a satellite. The speed, altitude and trajectory did not change during our observation of its path. Additionally, there was a narrow diagonal, linear white light, separate but in close proximity to the orb, emerging upward at about 1:00 to 2:00 and about equal in length to the diameter of the orb including its halo.
No sound was heard during its passage. The vertical linear "tail" appeared to move to a position of about 11:00 and separate from the orb slightly as the orb traveled toward the mountain horizon to the East. Remarkably, as the orb approached the mountain horizon in the East-Southeast a three dimensional conical vaporous light field emerged from the orb with its small base located at about the orb's 8:00 position.
The conical field rapidly grew spreading downward and to the left lasting five to ten seconds before it rapidly dissipated. I would approximate that the maximum length of the cone was about 30 times the diameter of the orb and its diameter at the large end of the cone about twenty times the diameter of the orb. I am a retired Ph.
D. having spent 40 years in Silicon Valley advising corporate leaders on strategy, running a multidisciplinary behavioral medicine clinic and serving for a time on the clinical faculty and medical staff at Stanford. My wife, who also observed the UAP, is a retired manager of quality and performance systems for three hospitals at Kaiser Permanente Medical System.
She has three master degrees.
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I large light, no blinking lights, obscured by a fog in the sky moving to the southeast with no sound. 360 deg pressure wave dispersed. On October 30, 2023 at 6:51 PM, I arrived home and as I got out of my car I noticed a strange light in the sky above my house towards the west.
It was rapidly getting dark and this steady glowing light that was slowly moving to the southeast was obscured by a kind of fog even though it was a completely clear night. There was no sound at all emanating from this object, there were no other lights and no blinking lights like a plane. I got my wife from the house, I took 1 picture and thought I started a video but actually didn’t.
Ugg. We watched it drift over us and towards the southeast and it was hard to tell how high it was with this weird fog around it, 2000 to 5000 ft high maybe. At one point a jet flew between us and this object and the contrast of a completely in focus commercial jet and this weird silent foggy light.
Right at the end as it was about to go out of sight we both witnessed a 360 degree, what I would call a pressure wave, emanate outward from this object and a fast pace and dissolve. That pressure wave was the absolute most unreal thing I have ever seen. It then continued out of site to the southeast over the Manzano mountains.
This was no balloon, it's not the moon I can prove that, it's no air vehicle that I have ever seen. I'm 68. And I did not really believe.
That has absolutely changed.
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Slow moving light with antenna in back while moving sprayed particls in shape of smoke ring/circle in front/downward of it. Was watering plants in back yard saw light above/south in the sky moving east from the west. Did not look like any plane or military aircraft.
Had no noise. Called a friend outside to take a look at it with me. He did not know what it was.
I went inside and grabbed my bird watching binoculars and looked at it some more. It had no shape just a round light but on the back of it there was a stick like protrusion at a 45 degree angel. It looked like a folded up umbrella or a parachute that failed to inflate.
The protrusion seemed very rigid and did not change shape. It was headed SE over KAFB or four hills and I saw it emit a spray in a round shape like a smoke ring. In a slightly down ward angle.
The spray/emission was much bigger then the light that produced it. I then proceeded to access my roof (took one min)to get a better view and it was gone.
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One bright red and white pulsing light dividing into 3 separate lights and then blinking out. I was traveling south on NM 542 just north of Mountainair, NM around 7pm MST. As I was driving I noticed a bright light that seemed to pulse red and white.
I thought it may be a star at first and then maybe a cell tower on a mesa south of town but I could see sky below the light. It was too big and bright to be either. As I watched it, the light divided into 2 lights.
The 2nd light was just to the left of the 1st at the same elevation and very near. The 2nd light then moved slowly back into the 1st and then back to the left. Then a 3rd light appeared just to the right of the 1st.
The 2nd light moved back into the 1st and then they all blinked out. The second sighting was about 8 miles SW of Mountainair but it seemed to be in the same general area as the 1st sighting. It was just one light and it lasted for a few seconds.
I have video of the 2nd sighting.
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This lights comes down from the sky. They move around the sky and disappear then come back Has been happening for the past week.
New Mexico UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 335 reported sightings | 20.17% of all reports |
Circle | 162 reported sightings | 9.75% of all reports |
Other | 140 reported sightings | 8.43% of all reports |
Unknown | 115 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
Triangle | 111 reported sightings | 6.68% of all reports |
Disk | 109 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
Sphere | 100 reported sightings | 6.02% of all reports |
Fireball | 83 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Oval | 68 reported sightings | 4.09% of all reports |
Changing | 63 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Formation | 54 reported sightings | 3.25% of all reports |
Cigar | 39 reported sightings | 2.35% of all reports |
Cylinder | 35 reported sightings | 2.11% of all reports |
Flash | 34 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
Rectangle | 31 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Diamond | 24 reported sightings | 1.44% of all reports |
Teardrop | 22 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Egg | 16 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Cone | 15 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
Chevron | 13 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Orb | 13 reported sightings | 0.78% of all reports |
Cross | 6 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Star | 3 reported sightings | 0.18% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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September | 203 reported sightings | 12.22% of all reports |
October | 162 reported sightings | 9.75% of all reports |
August | 145 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
April | 143 reported sightings | 8.61% of all reports |
July | 137 reported sightings | 8.25% of all reports |
May | 136 reported sightings | 8.19% of all reports |
June | 135 reported sightings | 8.13% of all reports |
November | 130 reported sightings | 7.83% of all reports |
December | 124 reported sightings | 7.47% of all reports |
March | 117 reported sightings | 7.04% of all reports |
January | 109 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
February | 89 reported sightings | 5.36% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 263 reported sightings | 15.83% of all reports |
Sunday | 245 reported sightings | 14.75% of all reports |
Tuesday | 238 reported sightings | 14.33% of all reports |
Thursday | 236 reported sightings | 14.21% of all reports |
Friday | 221 reported sightings | 13.31% of all reports |
Monday | 214 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
Wednesday | 213 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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10/01/06 | 11 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
08/15/99 | 10 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
09/13/14 | 10 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
09/22/12 | 7 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
09/13/07 | 5 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 661 reported sightings | 39.80% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 354 reported sightings | 21.31% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 231 reported sightings | 13.91% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 141 reported sightings | 8.49% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 137 reported sightings | 8.25% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 106 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New Mexico
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in New Mexico
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in New Mexico