NUFORC UFO Sighting 184753
Occurred: 2024-11-05 15:32 Local
Reported: 2024-12-04 15:59 Pacific
Duration: Less than 2 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
Location details: The historic Black Mesa near Los Alamos laboratory

Shape: Disk
Color: Dark grey
Estimated Size: 9 ft wide each
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Unknown
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: About a mile and a half
Estimated Speed: Unknown. Faster than a plane
Characteristics: Possible abduction, Marks found on body afterwards

Saucers flying into historic Black Mesa on Live Photo

We were driving back from a private tour of the Bandelier petroglyphs when we passed the historic Black Mesa near Los Alamos Laboratory. I am aware of the history there, so I took many Live Photos from the car while we passed it. In one of the Live Photos, I captured at least 6 saucers flying either into the Mesa or behind it. When I noticed the saucers in the photo later that night, I began to feel very uneasy. I stayed in a hotel room in Santa Fe with my mom and we both felt scared. That night, I had, what may have been, an oddly specific nightmare of me being handed a large black, pillowy object with three fringes on the top by two tall grey aliens that moved like they were gliding through Jell-O. I began to plead with them to not take me anywhere and they responded telepathically that I should cooperate. I began to scream and I swung the object to create space between me and the individuals. I woke up screaming, which is incredibly uncommon for me. My mom, who was awakened by the noise as she was next to me in bed, witnessed part of the interaction in the dark. From her perspective, I appeared to be speaking to someone in the room and then began screaming. I have since experienced disturbances falling asleep due to fear of a repeated incident. This may have been a vivid dream brought on by fear from the sighting, but I have chosen to include this event in case there are other reports of such events happening. I'm hoping that my story may serve to corroborate stories of similar occurrences from others, if any exist. The incident felt familiar, like it has happened before, but I cannot recall having any other incident like this. I woke up with bloody cuts on the inside of my thigh after the first night we arrived in Santa Fe, a few days before this incident. I thought nothing of it until the footage I captured and the possible abduction event occurred. My mom noticed a red mark on her knee the day after the event that she has since had a doctor look at. It is not skin cancer or ring worm. There appears to be no implant underneath the skin. We were staying in a villa at a luxury hotel. The villa is directly across from the check-in area and lobby. The lobby has a view of the villa from the windows. Although it was the middle of the night, I believe there may have been other witnesses. I was too embarrassed to ask. I have attached the Live Photo of the crafts and a photo of the cuts on the inside of my thigh that I took a few days after I got the cuts. The cuts were more severe on the day I woke up with them.







Posted 2024-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173090
Occurred: 2022-11-20 20:15 Local
Reported: 2022-11-20 19:40 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
Location details: Sky

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Unexplainable FAST Aircraft

I was driving up the Los Alamos hill, and a bright green aircraft shot across the sky. Was not a shooting star or a plane. This was unexplainable! I couldn’t see the shape of the aircraft. It was so fast. If it was a shooting star, I’ve never seen one like that. This was huge and bright green. I wish I could’ve taken a picture but it was way too fast. There was a car in front of me, but I am not sure if they saw it.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163169
Occurred: 2021-05-14 04:13 Local
Reported: 2021-05-14 19:44 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes


Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Animals reacted

Bright gold ball low in the sky in a perfect straight line going east

I took my dog out to go potty. When I opened the door there was a huge perfect bright gold ball like object. It was very low, almost like just above the tree lines on the other Mesa to the north. It moved very slow and in a perfect straight line. No blinking lights or any kind of movement. Just slowly moving in straight line from West to the East. I moved further outside to watch it and it slowly moved in that perfect straight line and then poof and it was gone. My dog was being weird and waits for me to call her in but when she was done she ran into the house. And in the morning she refused to go outside at 6:00 am her normal time for 10+ yrs. later today she keeps barking towards the same area. There is now why it was a satalite satellite cuz it was so low and so big. Very strange and no noise either. Of course I did not bring my phone with cuz it was so early

Posted 2021-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162888
Occurred: 2020-10-19 22:45 Local
Reported: 2021-04-30 15:36 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Landed, Electrical or magnetic effects, Possible abduction, Missing Time, Marks found on body afterwards

The craft blinked in the distance signaling one in the sky like they were blinking in a binary morse code type pattern. Then one descended on the valle caldera and disappeared into the center of the sky without making a sound. The lights it emitted are green and blue. I know more but I'm afraid to write it here.



Posted 2021-05-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 146404
Occurred: 2019-05-26 21:41 Local
Reported: 2019-05-26 21:22 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: Los alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 lights connected by red string

I was looking up at night sky for satellites and saw 3 stars really bight. I thought they were the constellation the 3 ladies, I think. Then they headed north east very fast like 3 stars connected by a red string. My daughter ran out and as they went overhead you could see 2 more following them. Then they went straight north by the time my husband saw them. They were moving so fast and no sound and no blinking. Like 5 stars connected by a string. Freaked us out and we left phones inside house.




NUFORC Note:

Space Link satellites. PD


Posted 2019-06-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160290
Occurred: 2018-08-11 22:20 Local
Reported: 2020-10-29 00:18 Pacific
Duration: 15
No of observers: 3

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright lights near Vandenburg AFB

Approximately 22:00 I walked out front of my house to lock the cars. When I looked towards the west just through my neighbors oak tree I noticed some very bright lights. I walked into the road to get a better vantage of the lights. As I watched the light I noticed the lights seemed to be moving in a upward direction. The lights started as a few but seemed to just keep coming over the horizon. As I watched the lights move Upward I noticed they didn’t make any noise but were very bright. As the lights continued upward I called my father who lived down the block so he could confirm what I was witnessing. As I was one the phone with him, all the lights seemed to turn to the south “left from their direction of travel”. The speed of the lights seem to be very consistent. What really threw us off was when the first light made the turn it seemed to slow. It seemed to slow to wait the last light to make the turn. I noticed this because of my training in the army... a technique we used on convoys. We continued to watch and take pictures and video until the lights disappeared. We zoomed in on the pictures we took and realized the lights were actually grouped in threes.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 130013
Occurred: 2016-09-17 19:36 Local
Reported: 2016-09-17 18:38 Pacific
Duration: on going
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Circle


White glowing circular object in the sky. not moving just sitting there for last hour or more.




NUFORC Note:

Possible balloon, according to news reports of a high-altitude, helium-filled scientific balloon in the area. PD


Posted 2016-09-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 122623
Occurred: 2015-10-08 06:00 Local
Reported: 2015-10-08 07:58 Pacific
Duration: 2-5 minutes


Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Weird flame floating over hills on 101 northbound fwy

Was driving northbound 101, when suddenly noticed what looked like a floating bright orange flame that seemed to rise upwards from the top of the hills, fading away with the fog.....




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2015-10-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 105986
Occurred: 2014-01-03 18:15 Local
Reported: 2014-01-03 18:12 Pacific
Duration: ~1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Lights in the sky above Santa Clara/San Ildefonso

My son and I were driving past Santa Clara Pueblo on our way towards Los Alamos when we both witnessed a bright blue light with 2 round bright red-orange lights directly below it shoot straight up and slightly to the left from behind the western hills above Santa Clara/San Ildefonso.

It was traveling very fast then quickly disappeared. The lights appeared to have a shadow of something that connected them.

Posted 2014-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 60683
Occurred: 2007-12-23 18:00 Local
Reported: 2008-01-04 21:12 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Strange helicopter craft on 101 near Los Alamos

On the west side of 101, we observed a very bright light from the air highlighting a parked car and the surrounding area.

We then saw a helicopter-shaped craft move sporadically, accelerating very quickly from stationary to an estimated 200mph and then it flew in strange patterns.

We observed the light and the craft from the rear view window as it continued to drive south on 101.

Then the craft moved to the right side of the 101 and passed us to the right, going extremely fast with no lights on.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2008-01-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 58719
Occurred: 2007-09-13 18:35 Local
Reported: 2007-09-13 19:27 Pacific
Duration: 20:00
No of observers: 6

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Bright diamond-shaped object

Diamond-shaped object that reflected a great deal of sunlight was spotted from a good distance away (at least 30 to 40 miles by my estimates). I can only guess it was centrally located in the Jemez Mountains/Caldera region of Northern New Mexico. It did not move - it was too bright to be a star since 6:30PM had a fair deal of sunlight in the sky. It was extremely bright and didn't resemble any sort of weather balloon. I thought it was a star or planet at first but after dusk it slowly disappeared. The witnesses I contacted during the ordeal also confirmed it was not a star.



Posted 2007-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 52534
Occurred: 2006-09-16 13:00 Local
Reported: 2006-09-18 23:34 Pacific
Duration: 15-20 mins or longer
No of observers: 30

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

I was driving to my hometown of Orcutt, CA. and as I was driving on the 101 North I witnessed a stringy black to grey object that changed shape and did not move from its axis during a windy dust storm day. I could not make a difinative descirption of the object. People were pulling over on the freeway and taking pictures. And I am wondering if someone else witnessed this object or if the people who pulled over have visual evidence of this.



Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48379
Occurred: 2005-12-05 01:00 Local
Reported: 2005-12-19 11:50 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Alamos, NV, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

There were three saucer UFO's flying about in a triangle pattern. Lasted about 5 minutes.




NUFORC Note:

We do not know whether this is intended to be a serious report, but we post it, nevertheless. We can find no "Los Alamos" in Nevada; the only one we are aware of is in New Mexico. Possible hoax. PD


Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 28336
Occurred: 2003-04-05 12:15 Local
Reported: 2003-04-06 15:01 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I witnessed a cigar-shaped object being pursued by two F-16's in the skies over Los Alamos, CA.

I was outside when I heard the roar of jet engines. Living near Vandenberg AFB, this was not abnormal, but the loudness was. I looked up and saw what appeared to be two low and fast flying f-16's in pursuit of a small cigar-shaped object that was ahead of them by about 500 feet.

I watched as they continued to chase the object until they went over the mountains heading in the direction of Santa Ynez and out of sight.



Posted 2003-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33940
Occurred: 2003-04-05 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-12-19 21:48 Pacific
Duration: 60seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

12noon @Mtn Figueroa CA, near Los Alamos 2mil jets chase cigar or linear shape object just over hill top heading east from w

My family and I were up on mount Figueroa looking down on nearby city of Los Alamos and the Santa Ynez valley on beautiful clear cool spring day.

It was around noon and I was taking pictures of my children playing in the mtn wildflowers and taking in the refreshing mtn air.

We decided to head back down the trail to the car that was parked just off the side of the access road up/down the mtn.

We were getting cold and I ran out of film.

We were almost down the hill, just about 50ft from the car, when my wife and I heard this loud roar.

It sounded like a fighter jet. I saw two dots heading in out direction very rapidly and as I concentrated on focusing on them I saw this little dot in front of them.

At first I thought maybe it was just vulture or some other raptor flying in the foreground, but as I observed, I saw that this dot was staying in sync with the two bigger dots as they were closing on our location.

Then within just about 15 seconds we (wife/I) saw two military jets (black long noses, w/green camo(/f-16/f-111?)) enclosing on this cigar shaped object.

They nearly flew just couple 100 ft above the hill we were just on. They were so close that the sound was deafening.

One jet tried to come up on the ufo and even banked a little bit to maybe get a better look of the ufo.

The ufo then seemed to really move quickly, and it started to pull away from the jets.

My wife and I excitedly grabbed the kids and ran up the path to top of mtn we had just climbed.

When I got to the top I could just see the two jets rapidly heading, I guess east over the mtn range.

My wife says she saw a glimpse of a silver shiny color on the underside of the ufo.

I don't recall seeing color; I just saw what look liked a dark line or cigar shaped object just a little shorter than the jet’s noses.

I served in the u.s.a.f for 4yrs as a security police and never have ever seen anything like this before with military jets flying so low over semi-populated area.

Vandenberg AFB is just down the road from Los Alamos, but does support fighter jet aircraft.

VAFB mainly deals with missle launches.

Interesting thing is later on in that month I would see these fighter jet kind of aircraft flying into VAFB.

Which is odd, because when I worked at VAFB, I rarely saw these kind of fighter jets, except a day or two before an air show.

My wife and I are not sure what we saw. I'm a skeptical about aliens, but have not ruled out military experiments or other phenomenom.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18922
Occurred: 2001-08-09 23:45 Local
Reported: 2001-08-10 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Jet chasing object over Los Alamos National Labs

I have been camping outside of Los Alamos. Last night I couldn't sleep and was laying in my sleeping bag looking up. I had just seen a shooting star a few minutes earlier and so was watching the sky carefully. The event started by my seeing what I first thought was a satelite. Very shortly after though, I heard the roar of a jet plane. I have been camping here for several months, so I'm familiar with the jets that normally pass over the area. This jet was excessively lowd and I was confused for a second. Then the jet came out from behind a tree and I could see that it was following the "satelite" which I could now see clearly was at a low altitude. The light and the jet had both come from the west and had apparently just cleared the mountains west of Los Alamos. The object and jet maintained the exact same distance for the entire time of the incidence. They both flew directly over the lab and much lower than any aircraft I had previously witnessed. It looked as if they were tied together, since the distance between them never varied. The light in front continued to look like a satelite the entire time, while the jet had it lights on and was clearly blinking and showing its normal lights. I looked at the object as it went by and couldn't see any shape and couldn't tell how big it was. The jet was obviously "after" it. There was no sonic boomb, so the two objects were going less than the speed of sound, however they were moving much faster than the commercial jets which fly over often.

Posted 2001-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26111
Occurred: 1987-08-17 20:00 Local
Reported: 2002-11-15 22:23 Pacific
Duration: 30min
No of observers: 4

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

horseshoe shaped ( like an elect, razor) 6 or 7 feet long ,same wide approx 3ft deep ,blue light in window/w ,flashin red light in mid

object matched speed and direction with my vehicle for aprox 10 min I pulled over and object also stopped as if watching us, stayed about5 mins and then started to cruise over the fields making the ground glow silver blue after about 5 more mins rose up 100 ft and conected to another object zig zaged at a very high rate of speed and vanished!.



NUFORC Note:

Date may be approximate. PD


Posted 2002-11-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 67234
Occurred: 1973-06-30 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-11-29 11:07 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape:


I just read the siting report that you attributed to 1973.

A friend of mine told me a story about how he and a group of very smart but michievous friends spent months designing and creating two "UFO's," purposely designed to show up on radar, which they launched from different locations, then contacted a radio station to report to get people out to see them. Fighter jets were scrambled. Authorities never figured out what the "ufo's" were.

I remember bits and pieces of the whole story but could try to explain to someone if you wanted to know. However, the details I was given seem to fit with what the other person reported here.




NUFORC Note:

NUFORC has assigned an arbitrary date; source of this report does not indicate which report she alludes to. We are aware of many such stories, many of which go back to the 1950's and '60's. One notable such incident occurred at Princeton University in New Jersey. PD


Posted 2009-01-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17559
Occurred: 1973-06-15 08:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-05-09 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec.
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Cigar


Has anyone else reported a ufo over LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORIES around this time? I know of at least 2 others that saw it. It was golden in color and had no seams. It made no sound, no odor, no wind. But it was not a balloon. It was on a difinite course. I saw it about 50 ft. above me and traveled at about 5 mph. I could have thrown a rock at it. I don't care what was inside, I just want to know how a 60 ft. by 20 ft. craft stayed up there without the usual signs of engines. Incidentally, this is a TOP SECRET installation and is in a NO-FLY ZONE. tHIS AREA IS ALWAYS MONITERED and you need a security clearance to get past the security guards. Have you had anyone report this? I'd like to know if radar or the military picked it up?



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date in 1973. We will request that the witness contact the other witnesses, and have them submit reports, as well. PD


Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 133963
Occurred: 1965-01-05 03:00 Local
Reported: 2017-05-05 07:53 Pacific
Duration: 4.5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Los Alamos, CA, USA

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Electrical or magnetic effects

5 police officers in 1965 were attacked.

It was 3:00 AM. I was a police officer, and the year is 1965. We were parked off to the side of the road to catch speeders, until I looked up into the night sky and saw two oblique orbs that were white in the black sky. They seemed to be hooked upon the high powered traffic wire. They must have been 2 feet in depth, and 1 foot across. They were floating up at 35 feet. As we watched, me and my partner were dead quiet.

Then, I decided to get out of the squad car; my partner stayed in the car. The orb proceeded forward, and then my partner keyed into the radio and mic. Then the orb sped off to my right, getting smaller and smaller.

At that time, we made separate reports because, at the time in California, sighted ufos by officers were common, and they had to make separate reports.

Posted 2017-05-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69929
Occurred: 1944-06-01 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-05-03 22:23 Pacific
Duration: 1+ Hour
No of observers: 0

Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Disk hovers over Los Alamos during the development of the atomic bombs; pursued by planes.

My uncle worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during the 1940s and told me of this incident shortly before he died several years ago.

One day, a bright silvery disk was observed in the sky hovering over the facility and a plane was immediately dispatched from Kirtland Field to intercept and identify the object. As the plane approached, the disk ascended upward out of its range.

A second larger plane with a higher operational ceiling was then sent up to continue the pursuit, and again the disk ascended upward until it disappeared.

Apparently, this incident was witnessed by a number of the facility staff.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2009-05-12