Lafayette, CO, USA
A brighly flashing multi-colored light in the night sky over Colorado viewed for a half hour. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? 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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 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
- 2021-04-18
- Where
- Lafayette, CO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.994, -105.090 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-lafayette-co-2021-abc69f
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 21 reports logged in Lafayette, CO.
- This case is one of 119 Colorado reports filed in 2021.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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