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CaseTeardrop2016

Gilcrest, CO, USA

Heading SB on Hwy 85 going through Gilcrest. Single bright solid dot flies northeast to southeast. No trail but was really quick.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-11
Where
Gilcrest, CO, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
~5 seconds
Geo
40.282, -104.778 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-gilcrest-co-2016-65d308
Wave

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  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Gilcrest, CO.
  • This case is one of 201 Colorado reports filed in 2016.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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