A bright hovering light had several Las Crucens and El Pasoans staring at the sky Sunday night, wondering what the Unidentified Flying Object was.

The Las Cruces Sun-News and El Paso Times newsrooms received several calls from curious residents.

Tony Olivares of the Lower Valley said that at first he just thought it was a plane landing, but when the light was still there 10 minutes later, he ran to get his binoculars.

“It looked like a huge heart,” Olivares said. “It was something very silver and very, very bright. It just stayed there. I watched for about 45 minutes and it didn’t change.”

But as the sunset grew dimmer, so did the object, until it faded away about the same time as the sun. The object appeared about 7:30 p.m. and disappeared about 8:30 p.m.

Frank Kielnecker of the National Weather Service said it was likely a device measuring the stratosphere from White Sands Missile Range.

“We do launch weather balloons, but that one wasn’t ours,” Kielnecker said. “We think it’s coming from White Sands.”

Eric Lezama of the Lower Valley said he went outside to see the spectacle after receiving a call from his wife.

“My wife had gone out to get a money order when she saw this light in the sky,” Lezama said. “She said everybody was looking up at it, including the police.”

It was later suspected that the object may have been launched earlier Sunday from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, N.M.

Source: lcsun

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