Lakewood, CO, USA
He could see a dome top with vertical lines, the object was slowly rotating, and the bottom was lit up.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-09
- Where
- Lakewood, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 1/2 - 2 mins
- Geo
- 39.705, -105.081 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lakewood-co-2009-9f949e
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
- Lakewood, CO has 79 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 90 reports from Colorado.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.