NM MUFON News

History

Carolyn Duce-Ashe edited NM MUFON News from PO Box 2786, Corrales, New Mexico 87048 (phone 505-897-7075), with Debby Stark producing from 611 Lead SW, Suite 918, Albuquerque, NM 87102 (phone 505-242-6258, email Debby@swcp.com). The newsletter ran from at least April 1993 (Issue 3) through April 1996 (Issue 32), published monthly with a MUFON hotline at 298-0805. By Issue 32, the masthead proclaimed "Read world wide!" reflecting the newsletter's distribution beyond state boundaries. Duce-Ashe also wrote for UFO Magazine, with her NM MUFON News reporting sometimes appearing in expanded form in that national publication.

The newsletter operated in the most UFO-significant state in the country. Within driving distance of the Corrales/Albuquerque editorial offices: Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Holloman Air Force Base, and the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center. NM MUFON maintained contacts with scientists at both Sandia and Los Alamos who participated in UFO-adjacent research, particularly the Taos Hum investigation.

The newsletter covered an Albuquerque resident's repeated encounters with an anomalous low roaring sound at precisely 5am (distinct from the Taos Hum, switching on and off "like a light switch"), soliciting additional witness reports with investigator Peter Limone's contact details. This ground-level data collection, asking readers to listen at specific hours and report results, reflected an active investigation methodology rather than passive news aggregation.

The April 1996 issue carried Miller Johnson's exclusive on the "Roswell Metal Fragment Incident": on 24 March 1996, an out-of-state visitor brought a triangular metal fragment (approximately 1-5/8" by 3", with a non-descript pattern of copper and bright aluminium) to the Roswell International UFO Museum. Max Littell, the museum's Secretary/Treasurer, received the account. The story made the front page of the Roswell Daily Record with a colour photograph three days later, and Associated Press ran it nationally. NM MUFON tracked the story as it developed.