CaseCircle1999
Cortez, CO, USA
Star-like object at 60 degrees traversed sky, wavered, made 90 degree turn, blinked bright and dim, then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-06-07
- Where
- Cortez, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.349, -108.586 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cortez-co-1999-74c766
In context
- Cortez, CO shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Colorado in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.