Manitou Springs, CO, USA
we saw flasing colors on an oval shaped saucer going in and out of the trees
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-15
- Where
- Manitou Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4-5 min
- Geo
- 38.860, -104.917 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-manitou-springs-co-2008-5d67b6
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 3 reports logged in Manitou Springs, CO.
- This case is one of 99 Colorado reports filed in 2008.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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