Mysterious flashing lights over SE New Mexico explained

HALFWAY, N.M. – What do you suppose these lights may very well be? A video despatched to KOB 4 by a viewer in Midway begins with one mild fading within the heart of the display screen – however then it pans over and divulges three extra. Then a fourth, and a fifth mild, then a sixth! 

The lights first appeared over southeast New Mexico round 9 p.m. Monday night time and a number of folks from Loving to Carlsbad say they noticed them mild up the night time sky earlier than they disappeared in a flash. 

We reached out to the Nationwide Climate Service to see if meteorologists might inform us what these lights have been. 

They mentioned a climate balloon did fly throughout the state over the weekend. But it surely took off from Fort Sumner after which flew over the Gila earlier than touchdown in Arizona. So based mostly on that path there’s no means people down by Carlsbad would have seen it. 

So it wasn’t a balloon, now on to the following choice. 

We additionally reached out to Holloman Air Pressure Base and requested if the navy had any plane within the space Monday night time. Seems the reply is sure. 

Right here’s what base officers confirmed: 

“F-16s from Holloman AFB have been flying in airspace often known as the talon navy operations space in southeastern New Mexico the night of August twenty ninth. The plane did deploy flares as a part of their coaching mission,” Media Relations Chief Denise Ottaviano mentioned in an announcement.