Oak Creek, CO, USA
Flash of bright white light for 3 seconds,then light went to red,hovered for 4 minutes flashing red white. Took off fast till disappear
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-01-17
- Where
- Oak Creek, CO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.275, -106.958 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oak-creek-co-2018-05c0b0
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
- Oak Creek, CO has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 112 reports from Colorado.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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