Boulder, CO, USA
4 orange lights hovering above/near Rocky Flats former nuclear weapons plant.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-06
- Where
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.015, -105.271 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-boulder-co-2012-8eb891
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Boulder, CO reports filed in November 2012.
In context
- Boulder, CO shows up 107 times across the archive.
- 119 reports came from Colorado in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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