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CaseCircle2016

Mead/Thornton (between; on I-25), CO, USA

A blue beam of light shining down toward Earth from an aircraft about two or three miles in the sky above. The blue beam then widened.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-12-23
Where
Mead/Thornton (between; on I-25), CO, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Few minutes
Geo
40.233, -104.999 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mead-thornton-between-on-i-25-co-2016-576962
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…

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In context

  • Mead/Thornton (between; on I-25), CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 201 reports came from Colorado in 2016.
  • 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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