CaseFlash2010
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Bright round flash flies over Colorado Springs for 3 seconds.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-06
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-colorado-springs-co-2010-b57e1b
Wave
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
- This is one of 258 reports logged in Colorado Springs, CO.
- This case is one of 72 Colorado reports filed in 2010.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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