UFO Sightings in New Mexico
28 nightmarks documented
Bright object observed near Rodeo in the New Mexico boot heel (1965)
A bright unknown in New Mexico's desolate boot heel — so remote that the sky held nothing but the mystery.
Police officer Lonnie Zamora encounters a landed craft with occupants near Socorro, New Mexico (1964)
A police officer found a landed craft with occupants — the most important close encounter case in Blue Book's entire history.
Bright object observed over Radium Springs during the 1957 wave, New Mexico (1957)
An unknown in the White Sands corridor during the dramatic 1957 wave — when Levelland made the world pay attention.
Second Blue Book unknown over Cochise in the New Mexico-Arizona borderlands (1955)
Cochise's second unknown in one month — the desert borderlands produced two cases from the same spot in rapid succession.
New Year's Day sighting over Cochise in the New Mexico-Arizona borderlands (1955)
A New Year's Day unknown in the desert borderlands — where Cochise once ruled and the sky held new mysteries.
Unidentified object observed near Mount Taylor uranium mining region, New Mexico (1953)
An unknown near the mountain at the heart of America's uranium mining — the raw material that fed the nuclear weapons program.
Green fireball-type object observed over Albuquerque nuclear corridor (1952)
Another unknown over Albuquerque's nuclear weapons corridor — where mysterious green fireballs had baffled scientists since 1948.
Second Blue Book unknown over Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory (1952)
A second unknown over Los Alamos — eleven days after the first hydrogen bomb test, over the lab that designed it.
Object observed over remote Tierra Amarilla in northern New Mexico (1952)
An unknown over the remote mountains of northern New Mexico — within the orbit of Los Alamos and the nuclear corridor.
Unidentified object observed over Taos in the New Mexico nuclear corridor (1952)
An unknown over ancient Taos — where one of America's oldest settlements met the nuclear corridor's newest mystery.
Unknown object observed near Holloman AFB and the Trinity site at Alamogordo (1952)
An unknown near Holloman AFB and the Trinity nuclear test site — where the atomic age began and missiles still flew daily.
Third Blue Book unknown at Holloman AFB missile testing center (1952)
Holloman's third unknown — the missile testing center in the Tularosa Basin kept producing cases across four years.
Bright object observed near the Mexican border at Hermanas, New Mexico (1952)
An unknown in New Mexico's desolate boot heel — desert so empty that the object had the sky entirely to itself.
Eighth Blue Book unknown over Albuquerque's nuclear corridor (1952)
Albuquerque's eighth unknown — the nuclear corridor's record was officially beyond any statistical coincidence.
Bright unusual object observed over Kirtland AFB nuclear weapons complex (1952)
A bright unknown directly over America's nuclear weapons assembly and storage complex — the same night as the DC radar events.
Unidentified object observed over the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory (1952)
An unknown over the hydrogen bomb laboratory during the peak 1952 wave — the same week as the Washington, D.C., events.
Second unknown at Walker AFB — the Roswell base — near Roswell, New Mexico (1952)
A second unknown at the Roswell base — the 509th Bomb Wing that dropped the atomic bombs kept seeing things it couldn't name.
Fourth Blue Book unknown over Albuquerque's nuclear corridor (1952)
Albuquerque's fourth unknown — no city in America produced more repeat cases over the nuclear weapons corridor.
Seventh Blue Book unknown over Albuquerque's nuclear corridor (1952)
Albuquerque's seventh unknown — 48 hours after the sixth, the nuclear corridor's record became truly staggering.
Sixth Blue Book unknown over Albuquerque's nuclear corridor (1952)
Albuquerque's sixth unknown in eight days — no American city came close to matching the nuclear corridor's unsolved record.
Fifth Blue Book unknown over Albuquerque's nuclear corridor (1952)
Albuquerque's fifth unknown — the nuclear weapons capital's relentless production of cases defied any statistical coincidence.
Bright object observed near Cannon AFB at Clovis, New Mexico (1952)
A bright unknown near Cannon AFB — another entry from New Mexico, the state that produced more Blue Book unknowns per capita than any other.
Object observed near Walker AFB in Artesia, New Mexico (1952)
An unknown near Walker AFB — home of the 509th Bomb Wing, the Roswell unit, in New Mexico's nuclear corridor.
Third Blue Book unknown reported over Albuquerque nuclear corridor (1951)
Albuquerque's third unknown — the nuclear corridor kept producing cases that made the connection to atomic weapons undeniable.
Early unknown observed over Los Alamos during the green fireball era (1950)
An early Los Alamos unknown during the green fireball mystery — weeks after Truman ordered the hydrogen bomb crash program.
Luminous object observed over Albuquerque during the green fireball era (1950)
An unknown over Albuquerque during the peak of the green fireball mystery that baffled scientists and alarmed the AEC.
White Sands tracking crew observes and tracks unknown object with theodolite near Arrey (1949)
Missile tracking experts tracked an unknown with precision instruments — one of the strongest early cases with quantifiable data.
Early unknown observed at Holloman AFB missile testing center, New Mexico (1948)
Case #139 — an early unknown at Holloman's missile testing center, from the very first months of Air Force UFO investigation.