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)
Aztec · NM, USA
huge, bright meteor seen over Aztec, New Mexico
Aztec · NM, USA
huge, bright meteor seen over Aztec, New Mexico...again.
Isleta · NM, USA
Sudden loss of signal on my Sirius satellite radio and police scanner.
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Bright, multicolor light hovering in air in rural Santa Fe
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Bright stationary circular object in high atmosphere in broad daylight gives way to five smaller moving crescents
Ruidoso · NM, USA
Ruidoso, Mexico observed a light object followed by an aircraft traveling west to east it was a sphere bright in color
Roswell · NM, USA
((HOAX)) I WAS AROUND SEVEN YEARS OLD WE WERE COMING HOME AROUND EIGHT AT NIGHT.
Unknown · NM, USA
We were flying to Ontario, California from Atlanta, Georgia and were about 1 1/2 hours away from landing. My guess is we were over New
Alamogordo · NM, USA
Bright red light hauling ass through the sky.
Las Cruces · NM, USA
UFO's Over Las Cruces?
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Im not too sure on the time a hour or two after nightfall. So maby 10=11pm. I was in back yard smoking and looking into the south west
Santa Fe · NM, USA
A bright solid round light above mountain south of Santa Fe, NM.
Sante Fe · NM, USA
Stationary bright white non-twinkling light in sunny late aftenoon in the expansive Sante Fe NM sky.
Gallup · NM, USA
huge bright white horeshoe lit object
Moriarty · NM, USA
the ufo was moving fast and erraticly it was moving in immposible ways
La Luz · NM, USA
Large Oval shape above tree line, move slow than darts fast, hover, move slow, red light & green lights blinking
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Colorful light 1 mile N. I-40 & Coors
NM · USA
Thought it was a shooting star but it kept getting larger then stopped and disappeared
Deming · NM, USA
I saw a ball of white light with a green glow drop down get brighter and change direction and speed
Carlsbad · NM, USA
bouncing ufo
Gallup · NM, USA
2 shape shifting objects and one small turquoise object sighted over NW New Mexico in daylight
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Small flashing white light & large fast white oval......
Gallup · NM, USA
12 object formation over NW New Mexico on Easter Sunday
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Saw 2 white lights fly very close to airplane then disappear by fading away.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
a very birght and steady light at high altitude moving from south to north over Albuquerque, NM at a high rate of speed.