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)
Santa Fe · NM, USA
At 6:45 pm while walking on the bike path near Frency's Park, a low flying bright white and a little bit blue light in a small oval or
Las Cruces · NM, USA
3 fireballs over mnts, triangle formation, random blinking on & off for 6 min.
White Sands National · NM, USA
Pulsating and solid green light with erratic white light dancing around them.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
At 930pm mst myself and two other once again saw a light appear 35% above western horizon due west of our house. object had green and r
Albuquerque · NM, USA
My view is East of the object looking West toward it. I look over an earth berm so my horizon is limited. I have been an RN for 21 ye
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Lights in western horizon spotted again.
Shiprock · NM, USA
Orange balls manifesting out of shiprock mountain
Carlsbad · NM, USA
Clouds leaving contrails
Espanola (seen from) · NM, USA
Unknown white dot in sky Staying in one spot
Rio Rancho · NM, USA
The Ufo was next to the moon it was Bright. it was not red it was a white light.
Hobbs · NM, USA
Very bright white oval shaped object seen outside an aircraft window over west Texas. ((NUFORC Note: Jupiter. PD))
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Seen above cloudine at sunset at 2 oclock/ originally thought to be reflecting the sun/ later bright white emitting own light in two po
Albuquerque (near) · NM, USA
Circle shape to the west staying mostly in one spot as light fades it gets harder to see. Smaller than the moon but way bigger than a
Bernalillo · NM, USA
Those New Mexicans from Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Santa Fe that reported a bright object near the moon really saw a helium balloon.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Diamond shaped object in sky at sunset we have video.
Hagerman · NM, USA
Total of 6 bright white orbs with red and green lights that flashed when they moved around in two perfectly aligned triangle patterns.
Espanola · NM, USA
Changing rectangle lights
Glenwood · NM, USA
3 brilliant stationary lights on nearby hillside went out and blue lights shot up and out of canyon with a sonic boom
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Lights swirling around in clouds above Albuquerque
Rio Rancho · NM, USA
Bright light - thought at first to be a star traveled horizontal approximately 10 seconds then turned upward towards the sky and within
Rio Rancho · NM, USA
Three disk appear in a photograph taken at a party with over 30 people.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
6/22/12 albuquerque new mexico silver lite 3min 6/23/12
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Lights appear and then rotate upwards into the sky.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
White flashing fading light in the sky
Alcalde · NM, USA
Strange object in sky during "Super Moon"