Fort Collins, CO, USA
Was watching the meteor shower from a field at the end of the road. ~ 4AM an object flew overhead which had 5 lights in a V formation.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-13
- Where
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- ~5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.585, -105.084 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-fort-collins-co-2016-e40272
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
- Fort Collins, CO shows up 124 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Colorado in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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