CaseCylinder2011

Aurora, CO, USA

hovering orange/yellow eliptical () with hazy lights over south denver metro

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-01
Where
Aurora, CO, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 min
Geo
39.729, -104.832 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-aurora-co-2011-b6c502
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Aurora, CO has 105 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 121 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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