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New Mexico UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2 UFO sighting reports in New Mexico from 1987 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "unknown" (1 reports, 50.00% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 09/20/87 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (1 reports, 50.00% of total).
New Mexico UFO Sighting Reports in 1987
This is a sampling of 20 New Mexico UFO reports from 1987, 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).
Full Report Text:
Las Cruces lights. It was wednesday before halloween but I don't remember the date. I fell asleep about 8:30 and was awakened by a bright light in my room.
At first I thought I had overslept and it was full day but when I woke I realized the light was gone, I looked out the window thinking someone was in the yard putting a flashlight to windows (I lived in a 4plex that was empty except for my unit). No sign of anyone, then I thought maybe a car had gone down the dirt road behind the complex, but there was nothing. I was ready to go back to sleep when I saw that it was almost a full moon.
While I was admiring the moon I saw a 'star' move from one side of the moon to another, then it was joined by two more. The three moved together to another part of the sky, then were joined by 6 more. They did geometric formations, pyramids, triangles, then light shot between them for a few seconds.
Then all but one zipped off. The one came close and got big, it looked like a sphere with lights stobing around the middle, but I could have imagined that. It might have been a disk or just a circle of stobing lights.
No way to tell. It hovered a while and suddenly the lights went dark for a second, then they came back on and a beam of light shot down to the ground. It was bright white and seemed to have a spiral of brighter light in it (some kind of movement).
It stayed on for a few seconds, went off then on again. then it went off and the lights left. There was no sound the whole time.
I looked at the clock and it was 9:00pm. I remember it fairly well because I wrote it down. What was weird is that I was usually exhausted because of work and kids and too much to do to ever get enough sleep and I felt like I had a full nights restful sleep.
The next day I called the police and sheriff to see if a helicopter had been in the area or if anyone else had seen anything. Neither department owned a helicopter and said the military did not have one in the area. No one had reported seeing any lights.
((NUFORC Note: The Wednesday before Halloween was October 28. We have corrected the date above. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Groups of bright shiny lights in the sky moving around during the daytime. Back in 1987 I was attending collage in Santa Fe New Mexico. At approximately 16:00 hours myself and two friends were on campus near a field shooting at gophers with bows and arrows.
One of my friends shot an arrow straight up in the sky and while we were watching the arrow go up we noticed a lot of bright, white colored shiny dots way up in the sky. We counted at least thirty of them. They were in a cluster shape and were moving around.
Some appeared large and some very small. They seemed like stars, they twinkled. We also noticed a commercial airline jet flying overhead leaving a trail.
By comparing the jet to the objects it seemed as if the jet was flying through them, also some of the objects seemed way above the jet and the larger ones below the jet. One of my friends went running back to the dorms to get his binoculars. The sky was blue and cloudless with no wind.
The objects moved slowly to the Southwest. I am interested in what you think these objects were and if any one else has seen them. My friend said they were silver colored and round shaped, by the time I got to look through the binoculars they were gone.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1987 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| Changing | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1987 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| September | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| October | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1987 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1987 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 09/20/87 | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| 10/28/87 | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1987 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
All New Mexico Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1987
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Mexico, in 1987
| City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe | 1 UFO Reports | Santa Fe UFO Sightings in 1987 |
| Las Cruces | 1 UFO Reports | Las Cruces UFO Sightings in 1987 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New Mexico
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in New Mexico.