UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Lake City (near), CO, USA

I was backpacking in back country of Colorado and woke to an insanely bright light one night. It made zero sense as I was miles from t

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-21
Where
Lake City (near), CO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
38.030, -107.315 · exact
Slug
light-over-lake-city-near-co-2017-f376af
Wave

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  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Lake City (near), CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 162 sightings in 2017.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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