Light over Moriarty, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
the ufo was moving fast and erraticly it was moving in immposible ways
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-04-17 → 2008-05-04
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April 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Moriarty, NM
My boyfriend and I were driving and noticed something in front of the moon. We pulled over and seen a flying saucer slowly pass in front of the moon like it was floating. We could see the shape perfectly from the light of the moon. It passed through the middle then went up the right side of the light of the moon then disappeared.
February 16, 2019 · 2:00 PM · DISK
Moriarty, NM
Looked outside of bedroom window which faces toward the North and noticed that there was an object in the sky. At first, I believed it to just be an airplane since the town of Moriarty has one, but it wasn't over that far to be that. Nor was it a piece of trash (clearly too big) and definitely not a weather balloon as it was moving sideways and I could actually see the colors from the sun shifting, on I am assuming, the silver object as it reflected. I watched it for all of five minutes before it disappeared into a dark cloud as it looked as if a storm was brew whether rain or snow, I don't know. But I did wait to see if it reappeared, but it did not.
May 25, 2016 · 1:20 PM · CYLINDER
Moriarty, NM
Silver, very shiny/bright, cylindrical shaped craft was visible in sky for about 15 seconds. At first I thought it was a low flying commercial aircraft but it was too low and no wings, just a tube. Vanished in a heartbeat. Clear sky, no clouds, zero commercial air traffic around, broad daylight.
February 25, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Moriarty, NM
I'm not sure what this actually was... Also couldn't put time above, but it was 5:45 am when I noticed this... there was a fairly large, low hanging, club-shaped "cloud" about 1 mi. S of our house which is 3 mi. S of Moriarty, NM. It was bright medium pink. The sun hadn't even come up enough over the horizon yet to light the edges of a cloud bank far E of my location. Weather at the time is very clear, cold, occasional breeze, except for the pink "cloud" and the cloud bank far distant to the E. "Cloud" appears nearly motionless. It was fairly dissipated by 6:20 am, and had barely moved in a NW direction. I've lived all over the US and I've seen plenty of crazy weather anomalies and this "cloud" WAS NOT RIGHT. I even got my friends son to come look at it. He looked around at the sky (to see if there was something worth noting) looked back at the "cloud" and agreed it was a strange shade of pink. I had no way to take a picture unfortunately. As a side-note there have also been issues with weird lights at night that were frequent around September last year but have tapered off to 1-2 times a month. They appear to be terrestrial or just above the ground. Between the lights and this freaky cloud I figured I should report something.