CaseTeardrop1987
Westminster, CO, USA
It appeared to be the shape of upside down teardrop. ((NUFORC Note: Possible helium-filled scientific balloon?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 2250s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 1987-04-01
- Where
- Westminster, CO, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 30-45 minutes
- Geo
- 39.837, -105.037 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-westminster-co-1987-06af6c
In context
- This is one of 45 reports logged in Westminster, CO.
- This case is one of 5 Colorado reports filed in 1987.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.4% of 1980s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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