CaseSphere2017
Estes Park, CO, USA
Red object moving fast, high, hovering over mountain ridge in CO.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-12
- Where
- Estes Park, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- <5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.377, -105.522 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-estes-park-co-2017-eaf7e3
Wave
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
- One of 32 documented reports from Estes Park, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 162 sightings in 2017.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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