Light over Soccorro, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I am a truck driver and on I-25 south between Soccorro, NM, and Truth or Consequences, NM 7 miles from the rest stop. I spotted a orange light turn on in the sky outside my driver's window, then it began to flash on and off into three lights as it moved across the sky. When they turned off, I flashed my trailer lights off and on three times to mimic what I had seen and to my surprise the orange lights turned on again in the sky and blinked three more times at me before they once again turned off. I grabbed my cell phone turned it to video and flashed my lights three times once again, one more time the orange lights turned on and blinked it’s lights at me. There was no sound coming from the lights and seemed to get closer to the highway this last time. I was able to catch it on video. There is nothing but desert where I seen the lights. They were probably 3 miles away but the lights were big and bright. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138455). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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