CaseOther2011

Grand Junction, CO, USA

Large red ball of light with trail of white/yellow lights seen over Grand Junction, CO

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-24
Where
Grand Junction, CO, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 min
Geo
39.064, -108.551 · exact
Slug
other-over-grand-junction-co-2011-f73db3
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

  • Grand Junction, CO has 104 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 121 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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