CaseChanging2016

Colorado Springs (east of), CO, USA

Dark, elongated horizontal streak, which changed shape, seen by airline passengers over southern Colorado on January 12, 2016.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-12
Where
Colorado Springs (east of), CO, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
38.834, -104.821 · exact
Slug
changing-over-colorado-springs-east-of-co-2016-bb0699
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Colorado Springs (east of), CO.
  • This case is one of 201 Colorado reports filed in 2016.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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