Vail, CO, USA
MUFON COLORADO REPORT: Sphere shaped UFO that disappeared and gave off strange visual effects.
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-26
- Where
- Vail, CO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 39.640, -106.374 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-vail-co-2005-8d985e
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
- Vail, CO shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 79 reports came from Colorado in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate 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.