Denver, CO, USA
Falling star became closer to the ground by the seconds and appeared in the shape of an upside down teardrop floating above my car.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-17
- Where
- Denver, CO, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.739, -104.985 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-denver-co-2017-85d83b
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…
Local cluster
October 2017 was a busy month for Denver, CO: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 317 reports logged in Denver, CO.
- This case is one of 162 Colorado reports filed in 2017.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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