Aspen (~2 hrs. W of; driving), CO, USA
3 orbs in sky remote Colorado oct 12 2013 moving in up and down to side to side plus sign formations .
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-12
- Where
- Aspen (~2 hrs. W of; driving), CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15-30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.191, -106.818 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-aspen-2-hrs-w-of-driving-co-2013-6ddd5a
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
- Aspen (~2 hrs. W of; driving), CO has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 146 reports from Colorado.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
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.