UFO Sightings in New Mexico
1,559 UFO sightings reported in New Mexico since 1944, peaking in 2014 (110 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,559
- Span
- 1944–2029
- Peak year
- 2014 (110 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1944–2029 · peak 2014 (110 reports)
Top cities in New Mexico
Albuquerque
1965–2021 · peak 2013 (33 reports)
Santa Fe
1966–2021 · peak 2020 (17 reports)
Las Cruces
1987–2020 · peak 2017 (8 reports)
Roswell
1945–2021 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
Rio Rancho
1991–2022 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Taos
1996–2021 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Deming
1965–2020 · peak 2018 (5 reports)
Farmington
1978–2022 · peak 2011 (4 reports)
Alamogordo
1988–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Carlsbad
1982–2020 · peak 2006 (5 reports)
Silver City
1997–2021 · peak 2006 (4 reports)
Clovis
1944–2021 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Hobbs
1959–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Socorro
1996–2021 · peak 2016 (3 reports)
Belen
1998–2021 · peak 2011 (2 reports)
Gallup
2002–2017 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Truth or Consequences
2002–2020 · peak 2002 (1 reports)
Los Alamos
1944–2021 · peak 1973 (2 reports)
Los Lunas
1972–2020 · peak 2020 (2 reports)
Edgewood
2001–2021 · peak 2001 (1 reports)
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Green fireball.
Tijeras · NM, USA
Red lights in the southern New Mexico sky multiplying and disappearing.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Circle craft universe the trees for two minutes no noise, some colorful lites around the perimeter of the round craft, still day lite o
Alamogordo · NM, USA
Orange orbs appear over Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Large disk followed by helicopter.
Farmington · NM, USA
4 UFO's OVER FARMINGTON, NM.
Carlsbad · NM, USA
I was driving north on Hwy 285 between Carlsbad and Artesia. I saw a line of three to four red lights that twisted to reveal another.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Explosion of mysterious origin.
Artesia · NM, USA
Four objects, one large, two medium, one small, small and medium interacting with each other.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
I thought there was a spider web that was a little white line when I touched it to swipe it away and it shocked me with an electrical c
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Skip/hop/dipping flying craft. Reflective and bright white to completely clear (invisible).
Alamogordo · NM, USA
Orange flashing lights over city.
Roswell · NM, USA
Strange light, hovering in NM sky.
Sandia Park · NM, USA
Strange white spherical object in the western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness later identifies the object to be Venus. PD))
Santa Fe · NM, USA
bright light turned green became larger and appeared to fall behind mountains.
Glorieta · NM, USA
Extremely bright white light observed near north star. ((anonymous report))
Albuquerque · NM, USA
White orb, no sound, no exhaust or condensation trail seen over Albuquerque South Valley.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Big ufos in sky over Albuquerque and people in Arizona witnessed it also.
Aztec · NM, USA
5 red and white lights formed in triangle. 2 upper lights split off and one looked like it exploded into a fireball, disappeared.
Ruidoso Downs · NM, USA
Formation of 6 orange/yellow lights fading individually from left to right and re-emerging
Albuquerque · NM, USA
I noticed it about 9 pm and thought at first it was a plane but then 2 more showed up and formed a triangle there were several more of
Farmington · NM, USA
((HOAX??)) I was driving back home, and I saw a big bright light in the sky w/o any sound. It was slowly moving S and it disappeared.
Mora · NM, USA
This object was behind a cloud with only part of it exposed. I have this photo to this date. It was accidently caught on a photo i took
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Plane chasing dull, dim triangle object.
Moriarty · NM, USA
Single bright pink low "cloud" when still dark before sunrise.