CaseCircle1981
West Elk Wilderness Area, CO, USA
Bright round ball. several thousand MPH leveled off to one thousand MPH zig zaged through dense timber, no sound no projected light
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-10-30
- Where
- West Elk Wilderness Area, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- five seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-west-elk-wilderness-area-co-1981-b439c2
In context
- West Elk Wilderness Area, CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Colorado in 1981.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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