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)
Pie Town · NM, USA
Two I-Phone Camera Shots Reveal Three Partially De-cloaked Disks; Possible cloaked Mother-Ship.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
No one believes us.....
Deming · NM, USA
Got out of my car, a dark oject caught my attention as it was getting closer. Blackish sauce
Deming · NM, USA
Shape-shifting/color changing object.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
My mom who was up late last night and described an illumination very bright light from the sky which lit up her neighborhood.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
I saw a bright orange oval shape that moved slightly and disappeared with no flash nor sound.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Twinkling string like light high up in the sky not surrounding by anything
Taos · NM, USA
Orange lights hovering and making formations by old Taos convent that burnt down.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Bright reddish gold object seen in Albuquerque NM FIVE MINS after midnite on new years 2014.
Kirtland · NM, USA
While lighting fireworks on New Years Eve with my four children we witnessed three orange objects in the shape of a triangle in the sky
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Cylindrical shape with amber colored lights hovering near Route 66.
Los Alamos · NM, USA
Lights in the sky above Santa Clara/San Ildefonso.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Saw a large fast moving red and yellow light that came to a complete stop and slowly faded. Then one more right after the first one.
Luna · NM, USA
Orange fireball.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
The craft was no any commercial or military aircraft I've ever seen.
Columbus · NM, USA
Nine small balls of light with tails in arrow formation. These were flying horizontally across the sky. Color was greenish orange.
Rio Arriba County · NM, USA
Quick history: 8 Years Military Army Medical Officer to rank of Captain; Vietnam vet w/bronze star-- 4 year degree in Biology Univ of C
Albuquerque · NM, USA
My fiancé and I began to hear a resonating loud humming noise. The hum was omni directional.
Farmington · NM, USA
Sphere with solar type squares.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Saw a kite-life UFO floating through the sky on Christmas Eve.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Christmas Eve 2013 headed South leaving Albuquerque, saw a craft that looked like a spinning top with rings spinning around it,
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Bright cone with rings spinning around it, hovering for 50 minutes.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
For the last 4 nights, I have been a witness to a bright hovering object... So bright and way below 10,000 feet... No way that it could
Taos · NM, USA
3 very large red triangle shaped obkject.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
5 orange glowing orbs forming triangles and lines.