Light over Socorro, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
3-4 yellow round lights in a triad and a string over the northern end of the WSMR east of Socorro NM on 11.29.11 about 1830.
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 2011-11-26 → 2011-12-13
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August 31, 2022 · 9:16 PM · FIREBALL
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Saw flashing red light's looking North towards Albuquerque. I can't make out shapes or, much else just see lights. Ufos coming out of the mountain's changing colors & shapes hovering, watching us. Last pics are the recent one's I've seen them all night because I have insomnia. Have vision problems wear glasses & have binoculars. Please keep my name and information private.
March 2, 2021 · 7:25 PM · FORMATION
Socorro, NM
I am a Mining Engineer at a nearby mine, who lived in Socorro for 5 years. It is not the first time that I have seen a similar formation of lights at night in the Socorro area.
June 12, 2019 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Socorro, NM
On June 13th, I was coming home from the grocery store with my daughter. I was driving down a local Street, when I looked to my right (east) and I saw three circular objects, somewhat star shaped in the sky they were in a straight line horizontally they began flashing they were a reddish orange and then would seem like turned to White. They started flickering on and off,then it looks like one of them moved upward and then back down and as soon as started it ended and they were gone. I thought that it might be a plane or a falling star but the more I think about it I know it wasn't anything like that.
October 13, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Socorro, NM
At one point, when moved towards NE, above the mounts, they all turned off then there were sparkles in a square then turned off. Then, the lights started moving NE and then turned off. At times there were between 3 7 lights at a time. They appeared quickly and turned off suddenly. They did not linger and were visible around 20 seconds at a time. I tried taking a picture but nothing appeared on the camera. The moon appeared clearly but not the objects and they should have been visible.
May 6, 2016 · 2:32 PM · OVAL
Socorro, NM
During early May 2016, my family took a road trip involving visits to CA, AZ, NV and NM. Of course, we wanted to visit Roswell and Socorro, NM, and we did. Prior to our departure, I watched my documentaries and videos regarding the Lonnie Zamora UFO incident on April 24, 1964. I was really fascinated with this case because Lonnie Zamora was a sworn police officer at the time of the incident which I believe makes his testimony and credibility noteworthy. A recent documentary video in particular caught my attention. 2 researchers who were working with Ray Sanford (I believe he arrived on scene April 29, 1964, and was able to perform an investigation with the assistance of Dr. James Allen Hynek) gave a presentation regarding up to date information obtained through continued research into this incident. In particular, was a claim that approximately 1 year after the incident, both Ray Stanford and Dr. Hynek returned to the landing site. I believe I have seen a few pictures online confirming the same. It is alleged that Ray Stanford took random snap shots of the area and many, many, years later discovered objects flying in the air off in the distance. It is my understanding Ray Stanford, at a later time when appropriate, may share those pictures with the public. While visiting the landing site which has been marked with rocks and a mural memorial to Lonnie Zamora, I decided to take some radiation readings and random photographs of the area. Nothing jumped out during the radiation testing but upon later examination we did discover an object in our photos that was not seen with the naked eye. To confirm there was something in the air, I did use MUFON's free to the public image analysis tools. While I am no expert, it does appear to verify we caught something in our photos. The object appears to be metallic, grey colored and oval/round. In addition, prior to driving to Socorro we visited a Native American petroglyph site approximately 1 hour north. We took many pictures of the drawings on the rocks. After we discovered the object in our Socorro photos, we decided to more closely examine our petroglyph photos too. It was then we discovered in 1 of the photos an object high in the sky that was not visible with the naked eye. This object appears more oval/elliptical. We are not saying what we caught on our photographs is extraterrestrial in nature. It could very well be a plane, bird, some sort of flying debris, etc. However, it is worth noting that at no time did we hear any noise or observe any jet contrails in the sky. These photos and videos were all taken with a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 mobile phone. So we were surprised that we captured something with the limited capabilities of a mobile phone vs. a real camera or camcorder. I hope one day Lonnie Zamora's name is fully cleared and any doubt about his testimony will be put to rest. RIP Lonnie! If NUFORC would like copies of my digital photos and videos, I'd be more than happy to share them.
April 28, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Socorro, NM
Me and my mother were on the highway heading to socorro we were in the county lines coming from las cruces nm she was on the phone and i was in the passengar seat we both saw a orange to yellow disc and as soon as we saw it it dissapeared another one popped up imediatly and it was right next to that other disc this happenend 5 times no noises were heard but our radio cut out it could have just also been the weather