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
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
- 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
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.