CaseDisk2016

Westcliff, CO, USA

A large UFO landed 50 feet from me and 2 friends. 30ft long 20ft tall disc with multiple lights around the center

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-17
Where
Westcliff, CO, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
35.709, -80.532 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-westcliff-co-2016-c2ac7f
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Westcliff, CO.
  • This case is one of 201 Colorado reports filed in 2016.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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