Colorado Springs, CO, USA
1-6 extremely bright yellow lights mid sky facing south. 2 horizontal rows maybe 3 on each side flashing e-regularly somethimes making
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-20
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-colorado-springs-co-2017-f2cac2
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
- Colorado Springs, CO has 258 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 162 reports from Colorado.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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