Aurora, CO, USA
Rainbow flashing Orb with Indigo Orbs flashing around the Main one. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-04
- Where
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 39.729, -104.832 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-aurora-co-2017-d6c8cb
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
- Aurora, CO has 105 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 162 reports from Colorado.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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