La Veta, CO, USA
Unidentified Flying Object Flashing Lights above the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius in western sky?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 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
- 2005-02-19
- Where
- La Veta, CO, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 20 Minutes
- Geo
- 37.505, -105.008 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-la-veta-co-2005-73e67e
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
- One of 8 documented reports from La Veta, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 79 sightings in 2005.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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