CaseOval2008

Fort Collins (near), CO, USA

Slow moving ellipse lit from beneath by the early-morning sun.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-10
Where
Fort Collins (near), CO, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 to 4 seconds
Geo
40.585, -105.084 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fort-collins-near-co-2008-bb67dc
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

  • Fort Collins (near), CO has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 99 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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