CaseFlash2020

Longmont, CO, USA

Flash of lights.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (16 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-03
Where
Longmont, CO, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
40.167, -105.102 · exact
Slug
flash-over-longmont-co-2020-39d5e8
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

  • Longmont, CO shows up 94 times across the archive.
  • 226 reports came from Colorado in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 1.1% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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