Golden, CO, USA
Advanced light patterns turning in sharp angles and moving at high speeds in a fluid manner that no known human aircraft could handle.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Golden, CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.756, -105.221 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-golden-co-2013-7fe603
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 29 reports logged in Golden, CO.
- This case is one of 146 Colorado reports filed in 2013.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.