CaseCigar2010
Denver, CO, USA
Slow flying black mass that eventually disappeared behind a cloud
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-26
- Where
- Denver, CO, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 39.739, -104.985 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-denver-co-2010-d04e9c
Wave
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
- Denver, CO has 317 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 72 reports from Colorado.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.