CaseUnknown1996
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Man repts. seeing "metallic object" in W sky against sun. Highly reflective, then turns black, becomes smaller. 2 boys see, too.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-15
- Where
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- 40.585, -105.084 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fort-collins-co-1996-53af2c
In context
- This is one of 124 reports logged in Fort Collins, CO.
- This case is one of 18 Colorado reports filed in 1996.
Report
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