Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
Large, silent, slow, triangular UFO with 6 bright white lights traveling approximately 4 stories off the ground near Denver...06:30
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-19
- Where
- Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.554, -104.969 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-highlands-ranch-co-2008-b7945f
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
- Highlands Ranch, CO shows up 31 times across the archive.
- 99 reports came from Colorado in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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