UFOMYST
CaseFireball1967

Crestone (near Alamosa), CO, USA

Saw 3 house size balls of fire come straight down, turn to fly horizontal straight at us for 40 miles in 3-4 seconds then pass out of s

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-09-03
Where
Crestone (near Alamosa), CO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
37.996, -105.700 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-crestone-near-alamosa-co-1967-b58cd6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Crestone (near Alamosa), CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Colorado in 1967.
  • In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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