Flash over Cloud Croft, NM

The report, as filed

On the fourth of July, at 1600 hrs., my lady and I went camping near Deer Head Campground, NM, and we were looking at what we thought was the the bright star to the west as always lit, always the brightest everyday, but I was mistaken this time as it grew brighter, looked like an air plane landing, soon after had a beam come down, like an led with blue light surrounding the beam, so we thought helicopter? Due to the object moving with the spot beam, the beam turned off and it started moving erratically up, down side to side, soon after it faded, the entire time you could only see the bright light as if a plane was landing, no shape was identifiable but eventually thought I do, not close enough to make us leave due to an estimated mile out, we blew it off, around 1am we spotted light through the Forest, I thought maybe the moonlight, it got brighter and spread out more across a 100ft area, we thought maybe ppl with LED flashlights, but the lights didn't move, soon after it changed color, blue, bright white and partial red, yes ironic but I don't scare easy,was an estimated 50 to 100 yds towards the top of the hill we were next to, so I decided, if ufo, we need to leave went to grab my keys took about 5 seconds, came back to observe what is happening, and it had disappeared,was pitch black in the Forest, we decided to leave since our camp neighbors were asleep, was not the moon cuz it doesn't move in 5 seconds and a pretty quite area even on the 4th of July, small camp ground and it wasn't ppl or anything from this world, I called it, we left after two incidents in one day on separate times, and the second was literally walking distance, both times my phone was in the tent so recording was even on my mind, was only me and my lady so was worried about us more, this is not a hoax, was near dear head camp ground NM. Sounds like a hot spot Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120160). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.