UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Fort Collins, CO, USA

Two large, bright circular objects initially very close together moved in opposite directions and disappeared.

Report quality: High77/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-09-01
Where
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
40.585, -105.084 · exact
Slug
circle-over-fort-collins-co-2018-f4854b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Fort Collins, CO reports filed in September 2018.

In context

  • Fort Collins, CO shows up 124 times across the archive.
  • 112 reports came from Colorado in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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