Edwards/Vail (between), CO, USA
Globular formation of 5-7 bright ball lights seen first and last as "shooting stars" by driver on I-70 near Vail, Co.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-10-01
- Where
- Edwards/Vail (between), CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2-3 min.
- Geo
- 39.645, -106.594 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-edwards-vail-between-co-2006-fff697
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
- Edwards/Vail (between), CO has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 96 reports from Colorado.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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