CaseFireball2001
Denver, CO, USA
Two different color orbs playing chase over denver & shortly after military aircraft shows up.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-20
- Where
- Denver, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 min.
- Geo
- 39.739, -104.985 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-denver-co-2001-3e771d
In context
- Denver, CO has 317 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 100 reports from Colorado.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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