Colorado Springs, CO, USA
My two brothers and I observed a white orb hovering over (which seemed about 100's of feet above) Pikes Peak. It was stationary.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-18
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-colorado-springs-co-2016-e5ce43
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…
Local cluster
October 2016 was a busy month for Colorado Springs, CO: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 258 reports logged in Colorado Springs, CO.
- This case is one of 201 Colorado reports filed in 2016.
- 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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