CaseSphere2002
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Glowing silver-blue sphere which vanished. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Iridium satellite "flare?" PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2002-07-23
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-colorado-springs-co-2002-a3a73b
In context
- One of 258 documented reports from Colorado Springs, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 71 sightings in 2002.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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