Littleton, CO, USA
What appeared to be 3 normal stars began to move in perfect formation, then faded from view. ((NUFORC Note: NOSS satellite. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-05-08
- Where
- Littleton, CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30-45 sec.
- Geo
- 39.613, -105.017 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-littleton-co-2004-3bd353
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
- Littleton, CO has 93 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 100 reports from Colorado.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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