Niwot, CO, USA
4 white and 1 red orb 'dancing' in daylight sky between Longmont and Boulder, Colorado
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-06-12
- Where
- Niwot, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.104, -105.171 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-niwot-co-2021-89b8dc
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
- Niwot, CO has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 119 reports from Colorado.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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