Pueblo West, CO, USA
ORANGE "FIREWORK" SPHERE W/ TRIANGLE IN THE CENTER HOVERED IN PW 7 MINUTES, SILENTLY, THEN DISAPPEARED
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-19
- Where
- Pueblo West, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 38.350, -104.723 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pueblo-west-co-2012-431c46
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
- Pueblo West, CO shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 119 reports came from Colorado in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.