Montrose, CO, USA
White orb, only noticed due to low flying Cessna type plane going same direction. ((NUFORC Note: Star or planet? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-02-08
- Where
- Montrose, CO, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 65 minutes
- Geo
- 38.478, -107.876 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-montrose-co-2015-d2fb47
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
- One of 14 documented reports from Montrose, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 165 sightings in 2015.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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