UFO Sightings in Colorado
3,016 UFO sightings reported in Colorado since 1931, peaking in 2020 (226 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 3,016
- Span
- 1931–2022
- Peak year
- 2020 (226 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1931–2022 · peak 2020 (226 reports)
Top cities in Colorado
Denver
1954–2022 · peak 2014 (27 reports)
Colorado Springs
1956–2022 · peak 2014 (25 reports)
Fort Collins
1963–2021 · peak 2018 (14 reports)
Boulder
1969–2021 · peak 2013 (9 reports)
Aurora
1962–2021 · peak 2016 (10 reports)
Grand Junction
1989–2022 · peak 2020 (29 reports)
Longmont
1978–2021 · peak 2013 (10 reports)
Littleton
1965–2022 · peak 2002 (7 reports)
Pueblo
1995–2021 · peak 2020 (12 reports)
Lakewood
1969–2022 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Loveland
1988–2022 · peak 2005 (6 reports)
Arvada
1959–2021 · peak 2016 (8 reports)
Westminster
1971–2021 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Greeley
1998–2021 · peak 2016 (11 reports)
Thornton
1997–2021 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Englewood
2001–2020 · peak 2004 (7 reports)
Estes Park
1954–2021 · peak 2019 (12 reports)
Highlands Ranch
1998–2022 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Golden
1975–2020 · peak 2017 (4 reports)
Broomfield
1998–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Boulder · CO, USA
This object looked like a bright star, zig-zagging, abruptly stopping & then zig-zagging @ a high rate of speed above Boulder, Colorado
Boulder · CO, USA
Possible abduction in Colorado in 1969. ((anonymous reports))
Grang junction colorado · CO, USA
Me and brother were walking to the book store on main street and we heard a whistle sound coming from above . We looked up there and sa
Colorado Springs · CO, USA
A witness in Colorado Springs, Colorado reported what they described as a large sphere accompanied by three smaller objects moving around it, during a three-to-five-minute sighting in September 1968.
Fort Collins · CO, USA
A witness recalled, as a 12-year-old in Fort Collins, Colorado, being followed by a black cube-shaped object near an orchard in July 1968, during an encounter that lasted about ten minutes.
Delta · CO, USA
Slow moving large red spherical object moving in a upward direction over the town. The object then split into two seperate objects and
Alamosa · CO, USA
I exited my mobile home east of Alamosa at 11:00AM I was carrying a camera because I was teaching Photo Journalism at the local colleg
Crestone (near Alamosa) · CO, USA
Saw 3 house size balls of fire come straight down, turn to fly horizontal straight at us for 40 miles in 3-4 seconds then pass out of s
Alamosa · CO, USA
Witnesses in Alamosa, Colorado, reported a light object that disappeared following a flash of blinding light, during a 20-minute sighting in August 1967.
Colorado Springs · CO, USA
Triangular object in 1967
Salida · CO, USA
Super bright object in NW sky.
Littleton · CO, USA
Three saucers over Daniels Park, Colorado, in the summer of 1965, witnessed by two people, & told not to ever report this.
Montrose · CO, USA
A father and son driving to work near Montrose, Colorado reported an intense blue light filling the valley, in a sighting lasting five to seven minutes in June 1964.
Rangely · CO, USA
Introduction
Colorado Springs (mtns. NW of) · CO, USA
A witness northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado described a disk-shaped object that hovered and made sharp right-angle turns before accelerating away when approached by an aircraft, June 1963.
Fort Collins · CO, USA
A deputy sheriff near Fort Collins, Colorado reported a bright, cigar-shaped object that followed his patrol boat for about seven miles, in a sighting lasting about 10 minutes in June 1963.
Denver (east of) · CO, USA
Witnesses east of Denver, Colorado reported a disk-shaped object hovering over a high-line tower in August 1962, said to have been followed by Air Force helicopters for 20 minutes.
Aurora · CO, USA
In 1962, a witness in Aurora, Colorado, reported a light that appeared to move from one star to another in the night sky, within about five seconds.
Arvada · CO, USA
In 1959, a witness in Arvada, Colorado, reported a small, round object at high altitude near the Rocky Flats site, visible in the sky for about an hour.
Commerce City (N. of Denver) · CO, USA
A lot of methane gas in area
Denver · CO, USA
A supposed star, at a time before there were humanly created objects in orbit, which behaved very differently from the other stars.
Unknown · CO, USA
In 1957 a strange oval spotted in Kansas that hovered, flew straight up, made 90 degree turn and accelerated at great speed vanished.
Colorado Springs · CO, USA
Mid-Aug 1956--One very large & close saucer/disc and 3 smaller discs off in the distance sighted by many people in Colorado Springs.
Dove Creek · CO, USA
A witness near Dove Creek, Colorado reported a cigar-shaped object releasing smaller objects that performed unusual aerial maneuvers, over about 20 minutes in June 1956.
Woodland Park · CO, USA
Orange disk in night sky