CaseLight1989

Fort Collins (north of), CO, USA

Stationary brilliant variable white light masquerades as planet Mercury.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-01-07
Where
Fort Collins (north of), CO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.585, -105.084 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-collins-north-of-co-1989-c34451
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Fort Collins (north of), CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Colorado in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 11% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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