UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Buena Vista, CO, USA

UFO in Buena Vista, Colorado

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-05-17
Where
Buena Vista, CO, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
~10 sec.
Geo
38.842, -106.131 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-buena-vista-co-2008-3c667f
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

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In context

  • Buena Vista, CO shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 99 reports came from Colorado in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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