New Mexico - 10-14-09

I was laying on my lawn chair as usual in my back yard looking for any unusual objects to film. I had the night scope / JVC camera next to me. From over the top and behind me came this HUGE oval orange object.

I switched the camera on as fast as I could. By that time the object was by the trees in front of me. I was able to film some of it. It was so bright it easily shown through the trees!

I jumped up from my lawn chair after a few seconds of taping it, and tried to get a lock on it again. I was able to film it some more as it passed from the trees, then in front of the house. I would of run to the front but unfortunately earlier, the battery went dead and I was plugged into the power cord, or I defiantly would have.

I hope someone else in this area got it on tape. It was huge, about the size of the half moon, but was oval shaped. It appeared to be a dark orange in the middle (kind of a burnt orange, I don't think I have really saw that exact hue before) and lighter orange on the outer.

It also seemed to be one craft but kind of raggedy around the edges. This I am sure would have looked great with a color camcorder. The 40 second film I shot, the object is green because it was shot with a gen 2+ ATN night scope attached to a JVC mini-dv camcorder and because of the very bright nature of it looked completely round.

I feel super lucky to even get any of it! I was facing east, the object flew silently over me going west. Time was approximately 21:56 hrs. I also posted this to YouTube channel ufonv.

Thank you,

Jim