UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2012

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

A reddish/Orange object traveling silently at a very high rate of speed at relatively low altitude.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-23
Where
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
38.834, -104.821 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-colorado-springs-co-2012-84282d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • 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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Colorado Springs, CO logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2012.

In context

  • One of 258 documented reports from Colorado Springs, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 119 sightings in 2012.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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