Burlington, CO, USA
An ear-splitting almost explosion-type burst that left the whole horizon a luminous semi-circle of purple
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-12-05
- Where
- Burlington, CO, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.306, -102.269 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-burlington-co-2007-bb8ade
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…
In context
- Burlington, CO shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 90 reports came from Colorado in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.