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)
Silver City · NM, USA
UFO With Green, Red, And Blue Lights That Split Into 2, Formed Back Into One, Then Shut Off And Fell From The Sky Followed By 2 Circles
Santa Fe · NM, USA
An object with two lights flying across the western sky -- didn't seem like airplane.
Edgewood · NM, USA
Triagular object
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Triangular UFO with tentacles.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Venus moves by itself?
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Watched a vee formation of 7 glowing gold chevron/B-1 bomber shaped objects fly silently overhead in night sky.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
UFO Sampling Jets Contrail at 39,000 feet
Farmington · NM, USA
Brilliant White Object Parallels the southern horizon.
Santa Fe/Glorieta · NM, USA
Solid, bright white and red rectangular object fall from night sky near Glorieta, New Mexico
Valencia · NM, USA
rectangular bright white object falling from night sky
Highway 371 · NM, USA
Black Triangular Craft flew overhead
Tularosa · NM, USA
Flying Object Crash by Tularosa,NM around 18:00 hours
Santa Fe · NM, USA
bright orange lights spliting into multiple objects over Santa Fe, NM.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Bright light moving south and dimming out.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Crescent-shaped object observed
Truth or Consequences · NM, USA
Looked like a Fourth Of July sparkler--like a colored pinwheel.
Rio Rancho · NM, USA
From inside my home I witnessed an oval shaped green light travel low and slow from my window. It was completely silent.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Several bright lights headed slowly towards horizon
Glorieta · NM, USA
Large, meteor-type light seen near Santa Fe, NM.
Silver City · NM, USA
UFO over Silver City, New Mexico at very low altitude.
Taos · NM, USA
segmented flashing formation w/ "v" formation of glowing lights leading S. to N.E., Taos NM (Northern NM)
Cerrillos · NM, USA
White fireball on huge object flying horizonally before changing colors, emitting orange balls of light and evaporating.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
about 23:15 sunday, 10/1/06--a slow-moving horizontal strip of white light that shown into my room and then truned blue and moved off
Raton · NM, USA
Seven Bright Lights in New Mexico Skies
Raton · NM, USA
7 bright lights over northeast new mexico