Brighton, CO, USA
Very bright flashing in a pattern of red, white, green, but mostly bright light.Watching from patio due west and another north west
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-27
- Where
- Brighton, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- at lest 45 min
- Geo
- 39.985, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-brighton-co-2010-dcb6a6
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 17 reports logged in Brighton, CO.
- This case is one of 72 Colorado reports filed in 2010.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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