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New Mexico UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 89 UFO sighting reports in New Mexico from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (20 reports, 22.47% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (18 reports, 20.22% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 19.10% of total).
- 08/12/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 4.49% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (38 reports, 42.70% of total).
New Mexico UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 New Mexico UFO reports from 2019, 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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I saw and photographed an object hovering about 1000 feet in the air for about an hour. I was driving through Deming NM and about 30 miles prior I saw a hovering object out to the south of Deming. I couldn't figure out if it was a blimp or a weather balloon but it was stationary.
As I got to Deming it was in the same area but it did appear to have moved a little bit further south. I took pictures of it with my phone and it appeared roundish from that view. I went into the store.
came out and it was still there. As I drove West on I-10 I got a different and better view of it. It wasnt round.
I stopped on the side of the road and took more pictures. It was either white or Silver and it looked like it had 2 areas on it. Not round.
There were no wings or propellers and it just sat there moving a bit back and forth but nothing drastic. It just propelled there. I don't believe it was a drone.
What could stay up there that long? It had to be at least 1000 feet in the air and it wasnt small. At least the size of a commercial plane.
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Large stationary object for over an hour I was driving eastbound on I-10 in New Mexico. the sun was rising I noticed a large black spot in the southeastern sky. It's shape was somewhat round but seemed kind of like a blob.
The object did not change position at all for the next hour or so other than where I saw it in my windshield and then passenger window. This object was far away and seemed to be quite large.
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Chain of lights- move steadily then disappears. I saw what first appeared to be a satellite, a small, star-like light moving, unblinking across the sky from W-N-W towards N-N-E . I noticed another one a hands-width away, and then another and another.
We watched for approximately five minutes as the lights moved in sync, equidistant apart disappeared around the star Cyg in the constellation Cygnus.
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While enjoying our outdoor firepit, I first noticed 3 aircraft (no noise or typical aircraft strobes) travelling SW to NE in a steady straight path and evenly spaced. These lights weren't bright, their flight path was high. As each light reached a certain point, they would dim then disappear.
This continued for 10-15 minutes. My entire family saw, we even showed the neighbor. Planes appeared to investigate.
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Triangle UFO seen over Rio Rancho Residential Area (NM528) While heading Northbound on NM528 I observed two lights (mint green) quickly approaching from the West on my 10 o'clock. I first thought it was a helicopter because it came to a complete stop over at my 10 o'clock, but as I got closer I noticed that it was triangle shaped w/ one red light and two green on the corners. It stayed low and stationary but soon after it moved away going south at a high rate of speed.
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Unlit object cast shadow on road, chased by plane seconds later A friend and I were traveling East by car on US HWY 64 between Tierra Amarilla and the Carson National Forest. We had intentions of getting to a lookout point in the higher elevations of the Carson to look at the full moon, hence the road and surrounding landscape was pretty well lit. As I was the passenger it was my job to keep an eye out for Elk or Deer, so my eyes were focused towards the shoulder on the right.
At 10:09 PM MST she leans forward and looks up and to the left and says "did you see that?" after which I also lean forward and look up and left to see a low plane no higher than 200 feet flying over the road in a northern direction. She says she didn't even notice the plane, she looked up because something cast a shadow on the road ahead of us and she thought it must have been a giant bird or something. While I'm still watching the plane fly North, she tells me there was a dark pointed shape she couldn't really describe beyond that flying North and by the time I looked up the plane came into view on the same flightpath.
Based on where the moon was and how much time passed between her catching my attention and my looking up, I can only assume she actually saw something up there. We were nearly directly underneath the plane by the time our paths crossed, so for the 3 full seconds or so before the plane showed up, she was focused on whatever it was the plane was apparently chasing. I will be sending a marked map to show a more precise location.
The plane itself wasn't remarkable other than being pretty low for how close some higher elevation to the East was. One red light on the end of one wing, a green light on the end of the other.
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Object was large and very shiny, remained stationary and showed no signs of lights or windows. Then just seemed to vanish into thin air.soon after I noticed jets were scrambled towards it's direction as well as a c-130.
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Blue orbs photographed over Rio Pueblo My son, husband and I were hiking the slide trail in the Ranchos de Taos area. I took several photos of the Rio Pueblo from where I stood at the top of the overlook. When I got home and looked at them since I was shooting on live on my iPhone.
I was able to take the photo on my iPhone and loop it. Three photos showed moving blue orbs. I did not see them when I took the photos, but they showed up when I looked closely at the images.
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Large rectangle like shape My boyfriend at the time and I were hauling wood near the flat like wall Mesa. We noticed the Hallogram, Rectanglish shape. Some kinda huge ship or something.
But it was blended in against the Mesa Wall. It kinda looked like Heat Waves coming off the pavement in mid Summer.But you could see the large shape move right to left.
We kept watching it and even looking at it with binoculars.Before we seen the object, my Ex swore he seen about 6 short white or furry looking creatures running like people amongst or into the trees below us. That's why we took the binoculars out and started looking around.
That's when we noticed the large shape. Then we got scared and got back in my truck and left because we heard buzzing noises above us. But couldn't see anything around us.
The large shape was about 400 yards away from where we were parked. East off the highway about 8 miles.
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Strange lights flashing through windows and skylights.Wake up with red or blue Lazer lights beaming through small holes or cracks.Close off everything and managelights stills to shine through.
Started making noise walking on roof and sounds like trying to open door and windows. Constantly hear a buzzing noise flying around. But can't see.
!?! But notice shadows. And movement. Seams to be draining power from Solar batteries.
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MADAR Node 78.
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8-12 objects seen from plane, above them at over 34,000' While flying at an Altitude of 34,000 feet over the SW US in a westbound direction, witnesses saw a series of about 8-12 lights in a horizontal line about 10-15 degrees above their level attitude. The lights faded and returned in a shallow V position only to fade again. The experience lasted about 20- 30 seconds for the reporting witness.
This sequence of lights caused a lot of chatter on the radio and was confirmed by 4 other aircraft in the area at different altitudes and headings.
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Shimmering pyramid shaped UFO descending over apartment across the street. A little over a year ago, my brother and I saw a pyramid shaped UFO outside my house. We had just gotten home from spending the weekend at a friend’s house.
We were smoking a cigarette and when we were almost done smoking my brother said “what the hell is that?” I looked around and immediately saw what got his attention. There was a pyramid shaped UFO slowly descending from the sky. It was about a football field away.
While it was descending it was shimmering like light over choppy water. Initially my brother thought it was a black plastic bag stuck on a pole. It descended behind a two story apartment building across the street from my house.
Only the pointy part of the UFO was now visible. It stopped descending and suddenly 2 bright lights shot out of the top. The two lights moved very fast swirling in different directions.
This happened for so long that I was fixated on the swirling lights and noticed that the lights were moving in a grid pattern. Suddenly! the two lights stopped in place after 5 minutes of swirling. After the two lights stopped, the UFO started slowly cartwheeling with the two lights fixed at that one point of the pyramid.
It cartwheeled past the building it was behind showing the whole UFO. As it was cartwheeling, it was slowing becoming transparent. It cartwheeled horizontally for half a football field, getting more transparent and disappeared.
We stared in its direction waiting for something to happen. Nothing ever did.
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V-shaped formation of multiple white lights over Albuquerque, NM In Northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, at approximately 12:30 am, October 28, 2019, I saw a v-shaped formation of white lights traveling west to east, south of the Sandia mountain range. The lights were tightly but somewhat haphazardly in formation. No solid or linking structure could be seen.
I was unable to hear engine sounds or see a blinking aircraft light. I tried looking on the web to see if anything had been reported. It did look similar to a report made of a sighting in Lubbock, TX on August 25, 1951.
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2 light orbs were seen in the sky moving in and out.
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This morning I was leaving my house and heading to work when I noticed a bright flashing circular light low in the northern sky. It appeared to be changing colors rapidly, which is what caught my eye. I immediately took out my phone and started to record what I was seeing.
My partner was also on the way out the door for work. We both stood there in awe, looking at this mysterious flashing light. It didn’t appear to be moving.
I got in my car and headed to work. The entire way their I watched the light and it didn’t appear to move until I arrived at work and got out of my vehicle. At this point in was in motion and headed straight towards Turtleback mountain.
It flew right overhead, as it went over I could see it’s entire shape of it from its underside, at which point I realized it was a triangle. It had 3 white lights on the underside. One in each corner of the triangle.
It appeared to have color changing lights on top of the craft. The craft was completely ! silent as it flew overhead.
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About 5 lights in a row with different colors that looked as if they were connected by a foggy transparent ribbon Very low to the ground about 2stories.
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My sister and I were driving north on corrs Blvd in Albuquerque NM. We were near the montano Rd exit when we saw three 'brown balls' in the sky equal length apart, floating in the sky in a line. We drove toward it and by the time we reached the top of the hill they were gone.
No chem trails, no crafts flying away from us.nothing. I hope this helps someone.
and I hope we weren't the only one who saw them.
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A large black pencil shaped object sped by the width of the moon as observed through my telescope at 23:30 hrs on 10/09/19. I was looking at the moon about 23:30 hours on October, 09, 2019 when I observed a large black shape quickly shoot past from my left to right through the lens. I was using a Twinstar F500mm scope with a 6 in mirror and a 25mm lens with a barlow attached.
The moon almost filled my whole view when all of a sudden and without any lights I could see and no noise, a black pencil shaped object swooped across the screen from left to right. Through my lens it appeared to be 1/16 of an inch thick and about 1 inch long. It happened so fast, very fast.
It was alone that I could see and appeared to be slightly thicker toward the tail end. There was no noise. I continued to follow the moon for another 15 minutes with no other sightings.
It was not a bird, airplane, or any other object known to me. It was not visible to the naked eye because I looked in the sky after I saw it.
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 20 reported sightings | 22.47% of all reports |
Circle | 11 reported sightings | 12.36% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 6.74% of all reports |
Oval | 6 reported sightings | 6.74% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 5.62% of all reports |
Teardrop | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 18 reported sightings | 20.22% of all reports |
October | 16 reported sightings | 17.98% of all reports |
August | 10 reported sightings | 11.24% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 11.24% of all reports |
July | 8 reported sightings | 8.99% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 17 reported sightings | 19.10% of all reports |
Tuesday | 15 reported sightings | 16.85% of all reports |
Sunday | 13 reported sightings | 14.61% of all reports |
Thursday | 13 reported sightings | 14.61% of all reports |
Wednesday | 13 reported sightings | 14.61% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 12.36% of all reports |
Friday | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 2019 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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08/12/19 | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
10/05/19 | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
10/09/19 | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
09/28/19 | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
09/01/19 | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
New Mexico UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 38 reported sightings | 42.70% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 19 reported sightings | 21.35% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 10.11% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 10.11% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 9 reported sightings | 10.11% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.62% of all reports |
All New Mexico Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Mexico, in 2019
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.