CaseFireball2020

Golden, CO, USA

Green fireball went across the sky and turned orange, then disappeared. It was too large to be a comet, about the size of 5+ airplanes.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-07
Where
Golden, CO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
39.756, -105.221 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-golden-co-2020-b92ef7
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

  • One of 29 documented reports from Golden, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 226 sightings in 2020.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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