Boulder (foothills of), CO, USA
4 very large bright spherical objects -- one green, the others red or orange -- moving at high speeds upward in linear series
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Boulder (foothills of), CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 40.015, -105.271 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-boulder-foothills-of-co-2006-f7e2aa
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Boulder (foothills of), CO.
- This case is one of 96 Colorado reports filed in 2006.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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