Cortez (north of; on Hwy 145), CO, USA
UFO questionable on Highway 145 heading south to Cortez, Colorado San Juan mountain range. ((NUFORC Note: Bird in flight? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-07-15
- Where
- Cortez (north of; on Hwy 145), CO, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 37.349, -108.586 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-cortez-north-of-on-hwy-145-co-2019-9a552c
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Cortez (north of; on Hwy 145), CO.
- This case is one of 130 Colorado reports filed in 2019.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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