Las Cruces lights.

It was wednesday before halloween but I don't remember the date.  I fell asleep about 8:30 and was awakened by a bright light in my room.  At first I thought I had overslept and it was full day but when I woke I realized the light was gone, I looked out the window thinking someone was in the yard putting a flashlight to windows (I lived in a 4plex that was empty except for my unit).  No sign of anyone, then I thought maybe a car had gone down the dirt road behind the complex, but there was nothing.  I was ready to go back to sleep when I saw that it was almost a full moon.  While I was admiring the moon I saw a 'star' move from one side of the moon to another, then it was joined by two more.  The three moved together to another part of the sky, then were joined by 6 more.  They did geometric formations, pyramids, triangles, then light shot between them for a few seconds.  Then all but one zipped off.  The one came close and got big, it looked like a sphere with lights stobing around the middle, but I could have imagined that.  It might have been a disk or just a circle of stobing lights.  No way to tell.  It hovered a while and suddenly the lights went dark for a second, then they came back on and a beam of light shot down to the ground.  It was bright white and seemed to have a spiral of brighter light in it (some kind of movement).  It stayed on for a few seconds, went off then on again.  then it went off and the lights left.  There was no sound the whole time.  I looked at the clock and it was 9:00pm.  I remember it fairly well because I wrote it down.  What was weird is that I was usually exhausted because of work and kids and too much to do to ever get enough sleep and I felt like I had a full nights restful sleep.  The next day I called the police and sheriff to see if a helicopter had been in the area or if anyone else had seen anything.  Neither department owned a helicopter and said the military did not have one in the area.  No one had reported seeing any lights.
The Wednesday before Halloween was October 28.  We have corrected the date above.  PD