© Dan Cunningham Mark Lucero points to where he saw a large, strange object in the sky over Las Animas during Christmas week.
One of the witnesses has gone on the record to talk about it, but another prefers to remain unnamed.
Mark Lucero, 22, of Las Animas said he was standing outside a convenience store about 8:30 p.m. one evening during Christmas week. While he chatted with a companion, he saw a large, shiny object in his peripheral vision.
When he turned to look at it, he was stunned.
"It looked like a silver basketball, but a lot bigger. It was above the tree right here," he said, pointing to a tree directly across the street from the convenience store. "Then it took off west and was gone."
Lucero said the object had remained motionless in one spot until he looked up.
"I know it was not a moving object. Then it took off pretty damn fast," Lucero said.
He said he believes the tree branches were being used by the object for cover, "like we were not supposed to see it."
The second eyewitness said in a separate interview that he saw the object in his peripheral vision, too, and it suddenly took off when Lucero turned his head to look at it.
As the second man turned to look at the object, it seemed to curve back and down and then suddenly shot off to the left and disappeared after crossing a few degrees of arc in the sky.
He said the object had a "transparent look around it, like a mirage in the desert." He described the color as like a shiny silver car.
"It definitely was not a meteor," he said.
He said it also was not a bat or bird flying in the night sky.
While it was gray, it had a glow around it. He described it as looking like gasses were coming off of it.
"I used to live by the airport in Denver. I have seen plane lights where they become stationary and then move. This was different," he said.
The second man said that since their sighting, another couple has told them they saw something similar east of Las Animas.
Lucero drew a picture of the UFO, describing it as perfectly round, and it seemed to have three small holes on the edge, spaced like a triangle. He said there was no trail behind the object, but there was a glow around the edge of it.
Lucero also said his girlfriend saw something similar a few weeks ago while headed out of town, and she took a picture of it with her cell phone.
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