CaseLight2009

Hartsel, CO, USA

WE WERE NIGHT FISHING ON ELEVENMILE RESERVOIR WHEN WE NOTICED A FEW STRANGE LIGHTS ON THE WATER. MY BROTHER AND I HAVE FISHED SINCE WE

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-08
Where
Hartsel, CO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
39.022, -105.796 · exact
Slug
light-over-hartsel-co-2009-b084a2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 4 documented reports from Hartsel, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 90 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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