NUFORC UFO Sighting 174307
Occurred: 2023-02-02 19:15 Local
Reported: 2023-02-04 18:08 Pacific
Duration: 30 secons
No of observers: 4

Location: Artesia, NM, USA
Location details: Southbound on 285 from Roswell to Artesia

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Left a trail

Me, my wife and to adult age sons witnessed six lights appear in intervals I. Two line formations

Driving southbound on 285 from Roswell to Artesia, me, my wife and two adult age sons observed a total of six lights In Formation. My wife had asked what the bright celestial body was to our west, low on the horizon. As I looked west and said Jupiter, we both saw a dull orange light appear in the southwest sky, not low in the sky near lights or towers, but high in the southwest sky. Within seconds a send and third light appeared in a straight line. The lights each went out in sequence as three more lights appeared a short distance south of the first three. The new three appeared in similar sequence and in a formation like an echelon. At this moment the first three reappeared in sequence and the same echelon formation. The six moved laterally a short distance. As I realized that these were likely not flares, because they turned on and off, as they appeared and disappeared and moved laterally I called to my boys in the back seat, who saw the formation starting from the second group. I also asked my wife to film it with her phone. As she was digging in her purse to find her phone, the lights went out for the last time. The entire thing lasted around 30 seconds. As we continued to scan the sky, approximately 5 minutes later we could see what appeared to be condensation trail in the sky in that same area as lights. I describe it as a con trail although it was too dark to have actually been a con trail, but that’s what it looked like. This trail was visible for another two minutes. I’m not sure these two events are connected but I’ve never seen anything like either and the proximity would suggest they were related.

Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149623
Occurred: 2019-09-24 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2019-10-08 08:09 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Triangle


ascending lights form triangle

i was outside smoking the other night dk when exactly... i swear on my momma i seen a light appear, then another horizontally a ways away creating the base of the shape, then other lights began to just appear one by one, stacking and forming a triangle. then gone. please if anyone else saw this POST IT SO IK IM NOT CRAZY.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 146664
Occurred: 2019-06-05 21:26 Local
Reported: 2019-06-06 01:27 Pacific
Duration: 17 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby, Possible abduction

Five orange, and yellowish circular lights appeared in the night sky.

My wife, myself, and the neighbors we were visiting had just stepped outside onto their porch. We were standing there talking about how great the weather felt and was looking at the stars. My wife said, "Do ya'll see that?" Our neighbor said, "I am glad someone else is seeing stuff". Yet when I looked and my buddy we did not see anything and said its probably just an airplane or a bright star. My wife said, "There were lights and they did not look like airplane lights or stars." I of course am, was, very skeptical and said (thinking she thought she saw a UFO), "Well I don't see anything."

Then right in front of us, up in the sky, we witnessed these yellowish, orangish circles of light. They appeared out of nowhere. First one, then another up and to the left of the first one, then they multiplied. There were all the sudden three circles of lights above and two below. Then the three upper circles of light merged. The lower circles then combined to one. The two upper circles then became side by side. Then one moved quickly in front of the other in a straight like fashion. Then the lower circle of light disappeared, then the one above it, and then the last upper one disappeared. Just like someone was switching the lights off. And switching the lights off what exactly? After seeing that, I sat outside of our home for quite a while.

Then all the sudden, it looked like a shooting star fell and that was all I saw the remainder of the time I sat out there.

I must have stayed out there for a good four hours just looking in the direction where I saw the circles of light. It was like something out of a movie, I have never seen anything like it. It was a feeling of fear, excitement, anxiety all rolled into one. I went inside my house and googled anything I could find on this kind of phenomenon, then watched hundreds of youtube videos. Which lead me to the National UFO Reporting Center. I even called Peter at the center. I was and still, am just trying to wrap my head ar ound what I experienced. This all happened in Artesia, New Mexico, which is 57 miles south of Roswell New Mexico.

Another reason I was so skeptical. I have always thought it was a humongous scam, UFO's and Aliens. I am not so skeptical any longer. I know what I saw was no airplane, no star, no kind of technology, at least none I have ever witnessed before.

I do have everything I explained recorded on my phone.

Posted 2019-06-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136925
Occurred: 2017-10-22 20:42 Local
Reported: 2017-10-22 20:06 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Fireball


Stepped outside for a chore, looked up and saw a rather huge, fiery ball of something moving at a high rate of speed. At first I thought it was a comet, but it never seemed to get smaller and picked up in size and color as well. if i were to accurately describe it, i'd say it was as if a plane was on fire, still in flight, headed towards Roswell, NM...

Posted 2017-11-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136132
Occurred: 2017-07-12 00:45 Local
Reported: 2017-09-12 11:50 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Landed, Animals reacted

A friend and I were on the Pecos River where it flows into Brantley Lake. To the South we saw a bright green flash the size of a small plane about 300 ft above the ground, then a skidding, green fireball, like a satellite entering the atmosphere or similar to the way a rock skips over water.

It flew for about .5 km before disappearing. From the time of the first flash to the time it disappeared was about 3-5 seconds.


((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS))

I was thinking the same thing. It seemed to have landed near or in Brantley Lake. Because of the lights not covering the entire area of its surface and it being visible between flash and skid I'm uncertain what it was. I have seen meteors before. Because of the similarity to a report from the same area 2 hours prior, I'm almost certain it was not a meteor. There was a barking and whining band of coyotes running from the area after we heard a coyote yelp. We were startled by this and left the area.

Thank you for your response. I honestly do not feel what I saw can be as easily explained.

((END ADDENDUM))

Posted 2017-09-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 135107
Occurred: 2017-07-11 22:30 Local
Reported: 2017-07-11 22:28 Pacific
Duration: .43
No of observers: 6

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Light


As me and my brother talked about flying I just happened to notice a broth star in the south west of were I was sitting. I began to see these bright lights to appear in order starting north to south one after another. Then in sequence they all start to disappear. This all happened within a matter of 5 10 seconds. Then, 10 min later, they reappear just ME or me same situation.

And for the third time I was able to get them on video and this is what I recorded

Posted 2017-07-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119153
Occurred: 2015-05-24 23:30 Local
Reported: 2015-05-25 08:24 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Sphere


Four objects, one large, two medium, one small, small and medium interacting with each other.

My girlfriend and I were leaving from visiting my parents house. We were saying out goodbyes and noticed a very bright light moving at a very high rate of speed, coming from a west-southwest direction. My father dismissed it as a satellite. I have seen satellites and honestly, I felt this was nothing of the sort. No sound, nothing odd in trajectory as it moved east-northeast. Simply larger than any satellite I have ever witnessed. It moved further on its course but never faded.

We then re-attempted to get ready to leave. Within a minute of the first light losing our interest, we noticed three more lights coming from a similar west-southwest position. I could tell they were not moving in straight lines. The first of these three was a little smaller than the light that had passed moments before. The third in line was similar to this size and brightness. The second of this line was the slightest bit smaller.

The second light started to move off of its course and got behind the third light. When they were approximately at a 90 degree above us, the smaller second light sped up and seemed to contact the third light that was ahead of it. The entire time there was no sound what so ever. The second and third light continued to "dance" across the sky until they we at a 45 degree, still following a general east-northeast path. Here they moved into a line. I relate it to Orion's belt. They stayed in this position for many minutes, with binoculars we watched them for ten minutes or more, almost as if they had paused in place.

We had to attend to animals so we said our goodbyes in awe.

Posted 2015-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115170
Occurred: 2014-11-05 07:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-11-06 07:09 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Cylinder


Was driving to Carlsbad across the highway from Brantley lake hovering above the hill was a metallic cylinder was stationary above a across on the hill.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have changed the date abovePD


Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 35516
Occurred: 2004-02-07 22:45 Local
Reported: 2004-03-10 19:20 Pacific
Duration: 10 TO 15 MIN.
No of observers: 4

Location: Artesia, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

A BRIGHT RED LIGHT HOVERD AND SUDENLY STREAKED UPWARD AND AWAY .

MY GIRL FRIEND AND I TOOK A TO A LOCAL PARK WICH IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE 91FRWY. THE PARK SITS ATOP A WATER WELL AND HAS A VERY GOOD VIEW OF THE SURROUNDING AREA AND SKY.IT WAS A VERY CLEAR NIGHT AND THE MOON WAS FULL .WHEN SHE FIRST NOTICED THE BRIGHT RED LIGHT HOVERING VERY HIGH IN THE SOUTH WESTERN SKY.AS WE SAT AND WATCHED IT SEEMED TO PULSATE AND SUDDENLY MOVED AT A VERY HIGHT RATE OF SPEED DIRECTLY TOWARDS US AND UPWARD . IT THEN CAME TO A SUDDEN STOP. SITTING THERE FOR LESS THAN A SECOND AFTER WITCH IT TOTTALLY DISAPEARED ONLY TO REAPPEAR 3 TO 5 SECONDS LATER.AT WHAT APPEARED TO BE A MUCH HIGHER POSITION BEFOR IT DISAPEARED ALTOGETHER.



Posted 2004-03-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 66049
Occurred: 1980-12-08 19:30 Local
Reported: 2008-10-04 02:20 Pacific
Duration: unsure
No of observers: 5

Location: Artesia, CA, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Cerritos/Artesia 1980 silent black disc with firey rim observed at dusk

I was riding in the backseat of a friend’s vehicle (2 in front, 3 in the rear) traveling north on Pioneer Blvd, specifically to go to McDonald’s. We turned west onto the small street on the south side of the McDonald’s. I recall, very vividly, the object was a matte black disc with small orange ‘flames’ around its edge, coming from the west, from say Lakewood or Long Beach (one would expect to see the Lakewood Sheriff station’s helicopter on a similar path) with silence. It was around late dusk and I recall remembering the event later and the fact that we seemed to have returned to my friend’s home minus any McDonald's food, no need to discuss the object, and hearing about John Lennon’s murder that evening , which helped me date the event. I make no abduction claims at all, just the sighting, but feel a distinct loss of time from the moment the object was passing over and being back in the TV den at my friend’s house. The street and parking lot, hence the restaurant, was busy when the sighting occurred.



Posted 2008-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96887
Occurred: 1953-08-15 19:00 Local
Reported: 2013-04-01 10:22 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Artesia, NM, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Burnt orange spheres.

In 1953/54 I around the age of 7 living in Artesia, NM; which is around 36 miles east of Roswell. The neighborhood kids were gathered for a game of "kick the can " when suddenly a burnt orange sphere around 3 feet in diameter appeared silently gliding about 4 or 5 feet above the power lines. It was moving so slowly that we were able to walk and follow it down the street. It paused above an intersection that had a large vacant lot on one corner and a small number of houses on the other corners. I observed within the sphere what at the time I thought was burnt orange smoke swirling within the globe emitting a light that did not illuminate any of the surrounding area. I also noticed in the center of the sphere was appeared to be a turning disc that reminded exactly of the disc on the old electric meters of the time. We followed this disc giddily as children do, but after it paused it seemed we just as suddenly began to fear it for some reason and! all ran home to our own homes. I told my folks, of course, they didn't believe me.

After that experience I began seeing UFO's for the rest of my life. Particularly through the rest of my childhood. I had my last encounter in the area when I was 19 years and was preparing to Nam. I've also seen formations of them; which was witnessed by many high school friends. I do not want to diverge topics, so I'll return to the sphere.

When I was 15 y/o I was helping a friend as he was flagging for a crop duster in the early predawn hours. We were west of town and noticed the same type and color of sphere again, but this time it was at a distance of 1/4 mile or so and appeared larger that the one that was hovering over the power lines. It astonished me because it appeared to be, at least, 6 feet in diameter from that distance. It appeared to setting down in a gulley, but we could not investigate because we were needed to assist the crop duster.

I don't know if this relates to the fireballs you've described, but it's closest to any comparison I've ever heard. I hope this has some relevance for you, so I wanted to share it. I am now 65 y/o and of all my experiences this is the one that has dogged me every day for all these years.

Thanks for your tireless work.

((name deleted))

Posted 2013-04-12