Denver, CO, USA
Big blue fireball
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (17 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-22
- Where
- Denver, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 39.739, -104.985 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-denver-co-2020-9c67d5
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
3 reports came out of Denver, CO in February 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Denver, CO has 317 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 226 reports from Colorado.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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