CaseDisk1997

Colorado (unspecified), CO, USA

a black shape in the sky while in colorado. was told it was a weather baloon.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-06
Where
Colorado (unspecified), CO, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 min
Geo
37.945, -104.835 · exact
Slug
disk-over-colorado-unspecified-co-1997-6ed940
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Colorado (unspecified), CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 22 reports came from Colorado in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 7.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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