Sphere over Mescalero, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It looked like a silver reflecting, blinking light and would be in one spot and stay blinking. Then the light would go out and come back as an orange light in the same spot then it would move around the sky in different directions. It would stop, then break into three orange lights, then go back into one orange light, then disappear. This happened with more than one craft/light at a time. There were unmarked helicopters flying that I saw and I could hear.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114686). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-10-25 → 2014-11-11