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

  • Historical wave1997

    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

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