CaseCircle2013

Gunnison area, CO, USA

Headed west on Highway 50. About 16 miles east of Gunnison CO saw large circular white light to the S, headed W at about 60 mph.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-29
Where
Gunnison area, CO, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
35-45 minutes
Geo
Slug
circle-over-gunnison-area-co-2013-a7a7d6
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…

In context

  • Gunnison area, CO has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 146 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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