CaseLight2018

Oak Creek, CO, USA

Flash of bright white light for 3 seconds,then light went to red,hovered for 4 minutes flashing red white. Took off fast till disappear

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-17
Where
Oak Creek, CO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.275, -106.958 · exact
Slug
light-over-oak-creek-co-2018-05c0b0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Oak Creek, CO has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 112 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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