Near Cortez, CO, USA
Extremely bright light, brighter than all other stars on a very clear, dark night. No noise, slow-ish moving, "turned" and faded off.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-04-01
- Where
- Near Cortez, CO, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.349, -108.586 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-near-cortez-co-2022-dfb017
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 1 reports logged in Near Cortez, CO.
- This case is one of 30 Colorado reports filed in 2022.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% 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.