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)
Rio Rancho · NM, USA
It covered half the sky in just three seconds, stopped, did a half circle and faded to nothing.
Glenwood · NM, USA
the object made a yellowish beam and made a strange fire like noise.
Chama · NM, USA
A large light was seen from a distance and it changed directions. After about 30 mins of watching this strobing light more lights were
Gallup · NM, USA
Strange star-like object emits lights from sky.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
White ball of light moving fast to the norheast.
Datil/Magdalena (between) · NM, USA
The lights moved in unprecedented manuevers and speed and emitted other beams from them.
Las Vegas · NM, USA
bye bye footage
New Mexico (southeast) · NM, USA
Very dramatic "electrophonic" meteor.
Roswell · NM, USA
saw and here a shooting star
Navajo · NM, USA
Four triangle objects hovering over Navajo, New Mexico.
Alamogordo · NM, USA
Witnessed a large object with lights, changing size, pausing in front of me, changing direction, then going down behind a mountain.
Silver City · NM, USA
Trangular shaped translucent object with lights
Albuquerque · NM, USA
5 blue-white spheres w/bright, glowing trails, traveling slowly from south to north over Albuquerque, 9:20 pm, 12/01/01
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Formation - White Triangle, String of Lights, and Large Red Glow
Las Vegas/Truth or Consequences (between) · NM, USA
small black disk flying fast in sunny NM sky
Edgewood · NM, USA
I had been feeding my dogs an a blueish object caught my eye
Roswell · NM, USA
3 high speed objects caught on film.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Spherical silver balls which emitted bright white light
Santa Fe · NM, USA
We saw objects in the sky that could not have been stars. We observed them through bionoculars and saw 9 objects that hovered, pulsated
Albuquerque · NM, USA
A couple of friends, my wife and I were staying in Albuquerque (87104) at the Sheraton Old Town hotel on September 21, 2001. We were s
Los Alamos · NM, USA
Jet chasing object over Los Alamos National Labs
Las Vegas (north of) · NM, USA
Yellowish bright light approached the rear of my car at a extremely high rate of speed two times and then it was gone.
Roswell · NM, USA
Dark Triangle, silent craft "floating" with 3 lights on the bottom heading NNE over SW Roswell between July-Sept 2001
Jemez Springs · NM, USA
High altitude, very rapidly moving lights.
Ruidoso (Bonita Lake) · NM, USA
Flash of Light, followed by a orange fireball