Colorado Springs, CO, USA
The object was about one hundred and fifty feet long, and fifty feet wide. It was greyish black in color, I think the object was about
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-15
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-colorado-springs-co-1997-6f974b
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 258 documented reports from Colorado Springs, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 22 sightings in 1997.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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