CaseCircle2002
Thornton, CO, USA
Stationary brilliant light that suddenly rotated and rose rapidly and vanished
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-28
- Where
- Thornton, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 25 sec
- Geo
- 39.868, -104.972 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-thornton-co-2002-e6639c
In context
- Thornton, CO shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Colorado in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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