Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Triangle craft with dim lights traveling low at a high rate of speed with no sound over the Colorado Springs airport.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-21
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- a few seconds
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-colorado-springs-co-2009-885f20
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
- Colorado Springs, CO shows up 258 times across the archive.
- 90 reports came from Colorado in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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