Denver, CO, USA
4 lights over Denver. 2 turned into 4. As they dropped from the first 2, very bright flare trails seen ascending.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-12
- Where
- Denver, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.739, -104.985 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-denver-co-2013-13a45a
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Denver, CO in December 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Denver, CO has 317 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 146 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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