New Mexico L.O.W.F.I

Archive for June, 2010

City: Albuquerque and Grants
Region: New Mexico
Country: US
Longitude: -104.922
Latitude: 35.7941
Shape: Cigar,Fireball,Flash,Oval,Sphere,Star-like
Distance: Unknown
Location: City
Visibility: Partly Cloudy
Weather: None
Entity Type: Apparition
Vallee Index: AN1
Description:

My brother and I were out looking around our parts for some supposed parnormals in Albuquerque. As we were headed home to the east of us we saw an extremely bright light coming towards us meaing it was traveling west for at the most 10 seconds then it disappeared. about 5 seconds later it reappeared so far east of us again and instantly disappeared. We wanted to retrace our steps and see if that happened again as were headed west it reappeared so far in the east to where i believe was as far as gallup. it would appear bright then dim then have ovals around it and so many different appearances. I still have the chills. What was this. It was so short we never even thought or got the chance to get pictures.
Attached Media: None

Sergeant Saucer has the first of what I am sure will be many posts about the festival here.  I am not sure the true identity of Sergeant Saucer.  I had thought he was Timothy Green Beckley, but I guess not.

I will not be attending Roswell, but I will keep you up to date on things via other blogs and local news.  I am looking forward to meeting up with Rich and Karyn Dolan while they are here in Albuquerque though, that should be fun!  Of course, anyone that is going to be blogging Roswell — if I don’t know about your blog already, email me and give me the url.  My email is LesleyinNM at gmail . com.  That is suppose to foil bots looking for email addies — not sure it totally works.

Case Number: 23899
Log Number: US-06232010-0001
Submitted Date: 2010-06-23 01:30 GMT
Event Date: 2010-06-22 22:10 GMT
Status: Assigned
City: Placitas
Region: New Mexico
Country: US
Longitude: -106.468
Latitude: 35.2892
Shape: Disc
Distance: Over one mile
Location: Desert
Terrain: Hills
Visibility: Clear
Weather: None
Entity Type: None
Vallee Index: MA1
Description:

I am a Mufon member and my friend, (*name deleted–SGonzalez/CMS), is visiting me from Reno. Tonight we were outside enjoying the warm weather – I was looking west, trying to focus my binoculars on a jet heading north. (*name deleted–SGonzalez/CMS)was looking east and saw the following: At first I thought it was a star because it was stationary for about 20 seconds. Then I noticed it was shimmering off the moonlight like an odd type of metallic material. While tapping my friend’s arm, trying to get her attention, the disc horizontally starting moving towards the north. Right about then I got my friend’s attention and we both saw the same object take off as in hyperspeed to the north. We both agree the object was about 5 miles from us at an altitude of 5,000′. Given this was my first UFO sighting I felt excitement and goosebumps.
Attached Media: None

Check out Norio Hayakawa’s latest blog post

OMG!  Are we sure the festival can continue without Billy Ray Cyrus and whoever the fuck Phil Vassar is?

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) – Organizers of the Roswell UFO Festival say musicians Billy Ray Cyrus and Phil Vassar have canceled plans to perform this year.

Festival chairwoman Renee Roach blames recent publicity about a city decision to review the allocation of lodger’s tax funds to fund future UFO festivals.

Roach says calls have come in from all over the world. Prospective visitors are asking if this year’s event is still on.

It is. The festival runs June 30 through July 5.

Mayor Del Jurney said in May that city officials wanted to make sure the funds were being spent appropriately. Now, Jurney says he’s surprised by the reaction. He says he never told anyone the city doesn’t want to hold the festival.

The UFO Festival Committee has a $150,000 budget for this summer’s event.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Case Number: 23800
Log Number: US-06172010-0006
Submitted Date: 2010-06-17 15:42 GMT
Status: Assigned
City: Hobbs
Region: New Mexico
Country: US
Longitude: -103.226
Latitude: 32.6986
Shape: Cross,Diamond,Star-like
Vallee Index: MA1
Description:

I was experiencing a very sleepless night so at midnight I went to the kitchen to get a drink of water and was going to take a sleeping pill, but remembered I had to get up early and didn’t want the hangover of a sleeping pill. It was too late as the clock on the stove read 12:03. As I was drinking the water I walked into a dining room which has glass doors to the back yard (North) and noticed a bright starlike object with yellow and red shimmering lights sort of hovering over my back wall about the middle of a pasture which backs up to our property. It didn’t move for quite a while. I ran to get binoculars but could find only opera glasses which weren’t of much help. At that time I watched it begin to move very slowly toward the west. I ran to look for binoculars elsewhere and looked out another window. About that time it disappeared. It just blinked off! Wne I first saw it I knew that it was not one of the lights that one can see from those windows. I thought, uh-oh. That might be a UFO. I mentioned to a neighbor today that I almost called her to see something but didn’t because I didn’t want to awaken them. she said it would have been all right as they were just getting home about midnight. I told her what I had seen and she replied, “OMG! I think we saw the same thing coming home. I asked the girls in the car, “What is THAT?” She described it as having red and yellow lights too but thought it was much larger than i did. I couldn’t go to sleep until around 3:00 AM June 17, 2010. I felt very uneasy and was afraid to go to sleep even though I did begin to feel tired. I don’t remember dreaming after that.
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I love The Man Who Fell to Earth and just finished watching it for the about the zillionith time.

Although, basically the story is still good and doesn’t seem totally hokey after all these years — I still like all the NM filming and very vintage shots even more.  For example there is a shot of David Bowie by the Rio Grande (here in Albuquerque), it looks similar to now, but there are no houses or buildings in the shot.  You also get shots of Civic Plaza in Albuquerque, Fenton Lake in Jemez, Madrid and just about 3 minutes from my house at the cement plant in Tijeras.  During the day the cement plant doesn’t look that great, but at night when it has all those lights –  I was told as a child and partly believed that it was a castle.  OK, at least I wanted to believe.

So if you want a story filmed in NM, about an alien that came to earth and was totally screwed (so far as why he came) this is the story for you!

Also, it was during filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in NM that David Bowie saw a UFO!

Witnesses See Three Boomerang-Shaped Objects near Ft. Collins, CO

Case Number: 23666
Log Number: US-06092010-0001
Submitted Date: 2010-06-09 00:01 GMT
Event Date: 2010-06-08 21:53 GMT
Status: Submitted
City: Alamogordo
Region: New Mexico
Country: US
Longitude: -106.06
Latitude: 32.8462
Shape: Diamond,Triangle
Distance: Over one mile
Location: Desert
Visibility: Clear
Entity Type: None
Description:

81�F Wind: 7 mph ESE Humidity: 28% 2153 Triangle shape. Looks like one light per corner. Over 15 minutes two lights went out. Object remained Stationary over North East Holloman AFB. Approximately 10,000 AGL. 25-30 degrees from horizon.
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UFO STalker

RANCHOS DE TAOS, N.M. (AP) – Jack Nicholson, Val Kilmer were among the actors who mixed Wednesday in New Mexico with dozens of Dennis Hopper’s relatives, friends and Taos locals to remember the two-time Oscar nominee at a memorial Mass.

Hopper’s simple wooden coffin was ushered into the adobe chapel at historic San Francisco de Asis church in Ranchos de Taos.

Hopper, who was twice nominated for Oscars and earned a star this year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, died Saturday at age 74 at his home in Los Angeles. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009.

A private burial was to follow the service.

Hopper first came to New Mexico in 1969 to scout locations for the iconic film “Easy Rider.” He lived in Taos for 12 years through the early 1980s.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)