UFOMYST
Caselight1997

Alamosa (West of), CO, USA

Bright silverish-white light 5 degrees above horizon with occasional red flashes, appeared 50 miles North-West of Alamosa

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-20
Where
Alamosa (West of), CO, USA
Shape
light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.469, -105.870 · exact
Slug
light-over-alamosa-west-of-co-1997-e89571
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Alamosa (West of), CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 22 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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