CaseTriangle2016

Boulder, CO, USA

The sky was lit but the sun was down. You could see the perfect outline of a triangle, no lights on , perhaps 50-75ft from the ground.

Report quality: High73/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-10-01
Where
Boulder, CO, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.015, -105.271 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-boulder-co-2016-e10300
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Boulder, CO has 107 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 201 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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