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Sante Fe, New Mexico UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Sante Fe, New Mexico to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 2000 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 01/26/00 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Sante Fe, New Mexico
These Sante Fe, 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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MADAR Node 78 .
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Stationary bright white non-twinkling light in sunny late aftenoon in the expansive Sante Fe NM sky. I saw a stationary bright white light on May 31st of 2008 in Sante FE NM. It was in the late afternoon on a sunny day.
This light was at cloud level and I would describe it as looking like a non-twinkling star, but five times brighter then any star in the sky. I watched it for 15 minutes and then went inside for ten minutes and when I came back outside it was gone. It appeared 45 seconds after my Dad ask me the question.
"Do you believe in UFOS?".to which I answered."I have no doubt, whatsoever, that they are here and are very real".
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3-5 round yellow lights appearing on parallel course at tip of wing of commercial aircraft then changing position to parallel back of wing. On thr night of 1/26/00, I was a passenger aboard a commercial Beechcraft plane flying from Denver Co. to Sante Fe NM.
At approx 9:45pm, I felt the plane lose a little altitude in the cloud cover and assumed we were preparing to land in Sante Fe. I looked out the window (westerly) and saw yellow lights passing parallel to the wing tip. I believed them to be runway lights and felt they were a bit too close for comfort.
Thinking we had passed all the lights, I looked back towards the rear of the wing and noted that the lights were now traveling with us in a line parallel to the back of the wing. After one or two seconds the lights simply vanished. Shortly afterward, we broke through the clouds and were not, as I had imagined, near Sante Fe.
It was another 25 or 30 minutes before we made it into Sante Fe. After landing, I asked our first officer if anything unusual had occured during our flight. The officer asked me to be more specific and I recounted what I had seen.
I find the officers response to my questions as interesting as what I had seen during the flight. I was told that "our aircraft" or "aircraft of this type" do not use yellow lights of any sort, they use a red light on one wing, green on the other and white on the tail. I was then informed that there had been no radar contact with any other PLANE that close to us during our flight and stress was placed on the statement by saying that if any PLANE had been that close to us, it would certainly have been picked up by radar alerting the cabin crew to such a presence.
Even more interesting, while showing an egar attentiveness and curosity to the details of my account, the officers remarks were professionally reserved. Additionally, this individual asked me a number of questions about what I had seen and yet never gave more than vague and obscure responses to my questions. Because of this officers manner, one could speculate about a few things: When saying "our Aircraft" or "aircraft of this type" don't use yellow lights, was this person hinting that perhaps a military or some other sort of craft might use yellow lights? If so, what sort of craft might that be? By stressing no radar contact with any PLANE that close during the flight, was the officer illuding to the possibility of radar detecting something else? Was I being subtly asked to read between the lines? During our conversation, the officer seemed to carefully avoid anything that might have led to answering questions about what the cabin crew actually saw with their own eyes.
I have learned that airlines frequently assign less seasoned pilots to fly the small commuter planes, allowing them to rack up the flight hours required to pilot the larger, jet passenger planes. No doubt the admission of an unusual sighting during flight might well be considered a professional liability for a young pilot just starting out with a major airline, therefore, I am electing not to name the airline or make any further public comment about my interaction with the officer for the time being.
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While driving on hwy from east of Santa Fe to Albuquerque I observed large bright white triangular object high in sky for over 2 hours. Late in the afternoon in end May 1990 I was driving on state highway #25 from Denver to Albuquerque when about an hour east of Santa Fe I noticed a triangular shaped, bright white object high in the sky out my driver's door window; the object would have been southeast of Santa Fe. My first thoughts were that the object must be a type of weather balloon as it was so high and bright and apparently very large (although I had never observed a weather balloon before).
However, a bit later, when the highway goes through a low mountain range with many turns, I noticed that this object maintained its position practically from whichever angle I was looking from, meaning that it must have been very high, many miles high, and therefore be enormous. Over 2 hours after the first sighting it was becoming dusk and I was approaching Albuquerque and as soon as I arrived home I got the binoculars but I could not see it any longer. The next day or so I was at a Memorial Day gathering of friends and many of us were discussing this object.
there were at least a half dozen who saw it exactly as I had.
Sante Fe, 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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Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sante Fe, 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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May | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sante Fe, 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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Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sante Fe, 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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01/26/00 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
05/28/90 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
05/31/08 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
02/06/22 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sante Fe, 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Sante Fe, New Mexico
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 1 UFO Reports | Sante Fe, New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Sante Fe, New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2000 | 1 UFO Reports | Sante Fe, New Mexico UFO Sightings in 2000 |
1990 | 1 UFO Reports | Sante Fe, New Mexico UFO Sightings in 1990 |
All New Mexico Cities with UFO Sightings
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in New Mexico