Superior, CO, USA
10:50 am. Black cigar object with vapor ring; traveled west over Hwy 36 near Superior, then south toward Rocky Mt. Airport.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-24
- Where
- Superior, CO, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 39.953, -105.169 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-superior-co-2011-576f90
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Superior, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 121 sightings in 2011.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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