CaseSphere2006

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
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…

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 days

Report

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