Aurora, CO, USA
It is raining really bad here and me and my friend were driving to my house and we saw an object in the sky kinda low with 3 lights on
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-21
- Where
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.729, -104.832 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-aurora-co-2009-1e28e2
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Aurora, CO reports filed in July 2009.
In context
- Aurora, CO shows up 105 times across the archive.
- 90 reports came from Colorado in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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