Denver, CO, USA
Bright Golden orb with tail - remained in sight approximately 4 seconds moving from South to North
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-18
- Where
- Denver, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds or so
- Geo
- 39.739, -104.985 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-denver-co-2004-cdbc80
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
October 2004 was a busy month for Denver, CO: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 317 reports logged in Denver, CO.
- This case is one of 100 Colorado reports filed in 2004.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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