Fort Collins, CO, USA
Orange color. Went straight up and stopped.i got ten seconds video on my phone then went to the telescope to look at it. Daughter in
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-04
- Where
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.585, -105.084 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fort-collins-co-2016-887341
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
- Fort Collins, CO shows up 124 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Colorado in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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