UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Vail, CO, USA

A fast moving red orange light flew in a straight line for about 3 or 4 seconds, then dissapeared

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-08
Where
Vail, CO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
39.640, -106.374 · exact
Slug
light-over-vail-co-2004-2eaa75
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Vail, CO has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 100 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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