Corona is a village in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, located on U.S. Route 54. The population was 165 at the 2000 census.Corona is the closest habitation to a purported UFO crash in 1947 about 30 miles to the southeast. The rancher who found the crash first came to Corona to report it to a few residents before going to Roswell to tell officials there.In 2004, Corona was the site of a 4,000 acres forest fire, begun when an unknown arsonist lit a pile of pine needles.