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
Part of a wave
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 daysReport
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