CaseTeardrop1997
Lakewood, CO, USA
Hovering object...quiet crack...then vanished
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-13
- Where
- Lakewood, CO, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.705, -105.081 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-lakewood-co-1997-36c49b
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 79 reports logged in Lakewood, CO.
- This case is one of 22 Colorado reports filed in 1997.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 1990s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
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.