CaseFormation2013
Brighton, CO, USA
3 lights in triangle formation move north
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-26
- Where
- Brighton, CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 39.985, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-brighton-co-2013-ee4e10
Wave
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
- Brighton, CO has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 146 reports from Colorado.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.