Broomfield, CO, USA
Bright light in the sky approximately 1/2 the size of a full moon; then a lightning streak and it was gone.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-12-09
- Where
- Broomfield, CO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 Seconds
- Geo
- 39.921, -105.087 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-broomfield-co-2010-2c2e84
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
- Broomfield, CO shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Colorado in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.