SIGHTING: PLAYAS, NEW MEXICO (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"Good Evening Respectable MUFON,I'm ready to tell my UFO encounter now, back at 2011 I was still in the US Army and I was just scary that telling this will make me some kind of joke.I was a SSG in light infantry Unit, at that time we were doing a Brigade size training exercise in Playas area, NM in desert type environment with medium to high mountain peek.I was the NCO in charge of a recon squad and test out to set up an observation Point to spot and gave warning defense comm to our main Patrol Base on enemy movement. It was in the afternoon that we arrived at the highest point and I assigned to my guys their respective sector of guard/fire and I was in the middle of this OP base. I don't remember the time but we still have daylight so as April my estimate time is between 04 - 0430 pm. Our Altitude was around 3000 ft and i just looked straight above me and I saw this moving triangle shape object and I thought was a commercial airplane. Suddenly it stopped and right away in my mind I thought that's wasn't possible and where was the exhaust tail from the jet engine!!It was just few seconds and it was really high but I can see with my naked eyes ( my estimate total altitude of the object was around 25000 feet). It can be less as I can see this weird bright orange color and white in the middle of it and I was amazed again from the fact that was there not moving at all! few seconds of hovering and that object speed up and just disappear, plain simple.I looked around to see if somebody was looking like me but they were just fixing their firing positions. I just told myself that never happened and move on. Few months ago I got out from the service but it is still stamped in my mind.Thanks to give us a voice.V/RJoseph Merlino"