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New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1993

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in New Mexico during 1993.

How many New Mexico UFO sightings were there in 1993?

  • There were 5 officially reported UFO sightings in New Mexico in 1993.
  • In 1993, New Mexico ranked #22 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, New Mexico ranks #7 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 1993, with an average of 0.33 reports per 100,000 residents.

New Mexico Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 1993

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Albuquerque, NM 2 UFO Reports
2 Alamogordo, NM 1 UFO Reports
3 Clovis, NM 1 UFO Reports
4 Los Alamos, NM 1 UFO Reports

New Mexico UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 5 UFO sighting reports in New Mexico from 1993 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

New Mexico UFO Sighting Reports in 1993

This is a sampling of 20 New Mexico UFO reports from 1993, 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).

Albuquerque, NM

Full Report Text:

The craft was quiet and swift. The visible lights were of a triangular configuration. At each point was an orange-ish point of light.

In the center was pink light, larger than the three other lights. There were no flashing strobes or other lights which might give the craft away as a terrestrial aircraft. The date I provided is *very* approximate.

I was much younger when I saw it. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We believe the witness implies New Mexico, not Arizona.

We have amended the state above. PD)).

11/11/93 10:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: Ten seconds

Report

Albuquerque, NM

Full Report Text:

A colorful object was hovering over the Petroglyphs, which backed up to my back yard, and it had no sound. It was late in the evening when I called my girlfriend in California. I looked out my window to the backyard and saw this, I guess cigar shaped object hovering over the Petroglyphs.

I went out the door to get a better look. My first thought that it was a blimp, due to the fact that I was from Los Angeles and they were seen many times in the skies there. The object had colorful lights, which was not in step with the airplanes or helicopter lights.

The object was just hovering, and then it struck me, THERE WAS NO SOUND COMING FROM THIS OBJECT. I was still on the phone with my friend and was telling her all about what I was seeing. I started getting concerned and moved back into my home as I have two small boys.

I continued to watch this object and when it started to finally move, it moved very slowly and then it went away in a flash. I called the police and asked them if Kirtland AFB was testing some prototype and they said they had no knowledge. Meanwhile, my friend was still on the phone.

I am an Executive Secretary by trade and the next day at work I told some of my co-workers, and they all laughed. But I know what I saw. I will report another incident that occured during the last major meteor shower last year.

11/01/93 11:45 PM

UFO Shape: cigar

Lasted: 10 min.

Report

Clovis, NM

Full Report Text:

Early morning around 0100; I couldn’t sleep and was looking out the window and noticed 4 blinking red lights, above the horizon, that were in a vertical row. Since we had just moved into this house, I wasn’t familiar with the neighborhood vista yet, and thought it was a radio tower of some kind, that’s how still they were. Then, all of a sudden, the two middle lights moved horizontally to make a diamond formation; this pattern was held for a few seconds and then the bottom light moved up between the two horizontal lights, forming a chevron, then in a split second they moved higher into the sky and were gone into the darkness of the night.

From the time I noticed the lights, until they were gone, less than a minute had elapsed. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

07/15/93 1:00 AM

UFO Shape: formation

Lasted: 45 seconds

Report

Alamogordo, NM

Full Report Text:

strange, amber lights unlike conventional airplane lights I was standing on my balcony watching the night sky. At approximately 1930 hours 8-10 amber lights appeared in a random, but close-knit order. The lights stayed on for about 5-10 seconds and then went out.

About one minute later, the lights appeared again in a similar manner. This happened repeatedly in one minute increments. There was no sound associated with the lights.

After a few minutes I called my 14 year old daughter to the balcony to observe the lights with me. She observed the lights for approximately five minutes. When the lights made their final appearance, they were completely aligned, as opposed to the random order of the previous sightings.

((NUFORC NOTE: Witness indicates that date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

04/21/93 7:30 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 10 minutes

Report

Los Alamos, NM

Full Report Text:

Three very large disks seemed to land in a hole in the ground and could be seen from 15-20 miles away. On the afternoon of March 19, 1993, fourteen of my co-workers and I suddenly were stopped in our tracks when we saw (from a high plateau on the Los Alamos, New Mexico hill viewing to wards Pojoaque, New Mexico) three extremely large disks (at lease 1/2 mile in diameter) emerge from nowhere and enter into a very wide opening in the ground. We were at lease fifteen miles (as the crow flies) from the landing site.

When each one of the disks entered the opening , one after the other, then the earth closed. I was the only one who remembered the sighting, as the others only noticed that a few minutes had elapsed. I pass through Pojoaque daily and I have tried to find the exact landing site, but it is on a Native American (Indian) reservation land.

A particular section of the reservation that non-Indians are not allowed to visit or enter.

03/19/93 3:25 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted:

Report

New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1993 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Triangle 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Disk 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Light 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Formation 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Cigar 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports

New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1993 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
November 2 reported sightings 40.00% of all reports
March 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
April 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
July 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports

New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1993 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
Thursday 2 reported sightings 40.00% of all reports
Friday 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Wednesday 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Monday 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports

New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1993 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
11/11/93 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
03/19/93 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
04/21/93 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
07/15/93 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
11/01/93 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports

New Mexico UFO Sightings From 1993 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
Night 20:00 - 23:59 2 reported sightings 40.00% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 1 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports

All New Mexico Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1993

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Mexico, in 1993

City Number of Reports View Reports
Albuquerque 2 UFO Reports Albuquerque UFO Sightings in 1993
Alamogordo 1 UFO Reports Alamogordo UFO Sightings in 1993
Clovis 1 UFO Reports Clovis UFO Sightings in 1993
Los Alamos 1 UFO Reports Los Alamos UFO Sightings in 1993

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.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 11 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 52 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 53 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 50 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 82 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 89 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 60 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 83 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 79 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 78 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 110 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 90 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 72 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 35 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 38 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 51 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 59 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 49 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 61 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 33 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 40 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 45 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 46 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 29 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 36 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 32 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 26 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 23 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 10 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 12 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 9 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 5 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 4 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 9 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 4 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 7 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 2 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 2 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 2 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 2 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 6 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 6 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 5 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 3 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 4 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 2 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 1 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 1 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 1 UFO Reports New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1969