Triangle over Tierra Amarilla, NM

The report, as filed

A friend and I were traveling East by car on US HWY 64 between Tierra Amarilla and the Carson National Forest. We had intentions of getting to a lookout point in the higher elevations of the Carson to look at the full moon, hence the road and surrounding landscape was pretty well lit. As I was the passenger it was my job to keep an eye out for Elk or Deer, so my eyes were focused towards the shoulder on the right. At 10:09 PM MST she leans forward and looks up and to the left and says "did you see that?" after which I also lean forward and look up and left to see a low plane no higher than 200 feet flying over the road in a northern direction. She says she didn't even notice the plane, she looked up because something cast a shadow on the road ahead of us and she thought it must have been a giant bird or something. While I'm still watching the plane fly North, she tells me there was a dark pointed shape she couldn't really describe beyond that flying North and by the time I looked up the plane came into view on the same flightpath. Based on where the moon was and how much time passed between her catching my attention and my looking up, I can only assume she actually saw something up there. We were nearly directly underneath the plane by the time our paths crossed, so for the 3 full seconds or so before the plane showed up, she was focused on whatever it was the plane was apparently chasing. I will be sending a marked map to show a more precise location. The plane itself wasn't remarkable other than being pretty low for how close some higher elevation to the East was. One red light on the end of one wing, a green light on the end of the other.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151650). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.