UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2020

Thornton, CO, USA

Seen by 3: flying object flashed a bright light (not at regular intervals), moved in an erratic path, faster than a plane

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-21
Where
Thornton, CO, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
39.868, -104.972 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-thornton-co-2020-87227b
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

  • Thornton, CO shows up 40 times across the archive.
  • 226 reports came from Colorado in 2020.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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