Colorado UFO Sightings in 2001

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Moving 3 Light Triangular Formation Eastern Sky @ FL330 Flying at FL330 east bound about 40 SE Colorado Sprgs, CO at approx. 0908 GMT/ 0208MT on (11 Dec.'01) looking into the eastern sky.

I was gazing at a star/planet and for a very brief time 15-20 seconds I saw 3 lites in a lopsided triangle shape slowly moving right to left below this star/planet that I was looking at. I am not an astronomer so I don't know if it was a star or a planet. But the very slight movement caught my eye and I followed it for the 15 sec or so until it slowly drifted left and down until it went out of sight.

The sky was clear with no clouds below but it appeared as though it drifted down into the haze or cloud layer below. It may have been one UFO or three flying in the lopsided triangle formation. The size and intensity of the white lights were similar in brightness and size to the star I was looking at.

It was not an aircraft and it appeared and disappeared again so quickly I did not mention it to the Co-Pilot. Star.> + .

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Stange cluster of lights in SouthWestern Sky of Pueblo Colorado 2 of us were on Mountain Bikes riding with night lights West of Pueblo near the Pueblo Motorsports Park (a recreational area set aside for motocross, mountain biking, hiking and such). It was dark and about 7:40 PM MST. Our exact location was near the water tower on the bluff overlooking the Pueblo Resevoir area, on the eastern edge of Pueblo West.

My friend and I had stopped for a moment and I walked behind a tree to relieve myself. As I started to walk back I noticed 3 bright lights which I thought were flares. These lights were about 15-20 degrees off of the horizon in the SouthWest portion of the sky over the area of Wetmore Colorado (25-30 miles Southwest).

When the lights disappeared I walked back to my bicycle and asked observer #2 is she had seen the lights? She saw them too because they reappeared about then. We looked to see if they might be landing lights of a plane disappearing and reapperaing behind the clouds, but there were no clouds. We saw the blinking light of a plane in the same general area but saw no association between it and these lights.

The sky was star filled. We got a reference to the mountain range that sits below and they were definitely above the mountains. We wondered if they might be distress flares from someone in the mountains, but the lights never moved downward like flares do.

They just stayed in the same spot, disappearing and reappearing. Each appearance lasted 20-40 seconds for about 4 times. There were always 3 lights.

They were always in the same position but their positioning was not symetrical. They each had about the same intensity of light and were of the same size (about 1/4" in diameter on the scale we were viewing). One was slightly higher than the others and slightly to the West.

The other two were closer together with the lower one slightly East of the center one. They disappeared after about 4 or 5 minutes. We do not know what these lights were.

Perhaps someone else from Colorado saw them too?.

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8 Lights in Formation, Have seenn them 4years 1st time more than two have apeared There were dots of white Blue and red. They were in a formation pointing East. The Brightest was below the moon with two at 50degrees forming a triangle.

Off all three points there was a dimmer light. Then in the north two more were over Denver. Me And my brother have viewed The R.

W.B. for years.

This the first time Ive seen more than two in th sky. Note at the proper angle the formation apears to be an Eye of Raa pointing towards D.C.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect twinkling stars. PD)).

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GLOWING CIGAR/CYLINDER,SHAPED.THE SIZE OF A STRIP MALL X THREE!ALL TRAVELING IN-LINE!! OKAY FOLKS,THIS IS A FIRST FOR ME!SO I FEEL REALLY ODD DOING THIS!BUT I HAVE TO TELL SOMEONE!LONG,STREAMED,GIAGANTIC IN SIZE,THE SIZE OF A SM.STRIPMALL X'S THREE!ALL THREE TRAVELED IN-LINE,THEY SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR,AND THEN REAPPEAR AGAIN!THEY DID THIS THREE X'S AS I WATCHED.

WHEN DISAPPEARING,YOU COULD STILL SEE THE OUTLINE'S OF THE OBJECT'S!IT WAS A FULL MOON DURING THIS TIME,SO THE LIGHTING WAS VERY GOOD OVER THIS DURATION.HERE'S THE REALLY ODD THING;IF YOU BURNED A CIGAR ALL THE WAY,AND THE ASH STAYED GLOWING ALL THE WAY,BUT THE ASH WAS THE SIZE OF A SM.STRIP MALL,AND MOVING THROUGH THE SKY,WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF THIS,WAS SM.

POP'S OF LIGHTS,LIKE BURST OF FLASHES,WITHIN THE THREE OBJECT'S,GOING ON AND OFF SLOWLY,BUT MANY TIMES.ALSO DISAPPEARING WHEN THE OBJECTS CLOAKED!NO SOUND AT ALL,MOVING SWIFTLY BEHIND A LRG.WALL OF CLOUDS,THEN THATS IT!I PULLED OVER TO WATCH THE OBJECTS,I WAS TRAVELING FROM CASTLEROCK COLO.

SOUTH ON 1-25,I HAD JUST GOT OFF OF WORK.TWO OTHER MOTOREST HAD PULLED OVER IN FRONT OF ME,BUT I DID'NT STICK AROUND TO DISCUSS THIS WITH THEM!WHEN IT WAS OVER,I GOT THE HELL OUT OF THERE!THIS THING COULD NOT POSSIBLY IN MY OPINION,BE CONFUSSED WITH ANYTHING I'VE EVER SEEN MILITARY OR COMMERCIAL!THE SIZE WAS THAT OF A BUILDING!NEXT TO SOME OF THE SM.MOUNTAINS,IT WAS ALL THAT SIZE!BUT IT WAS STILL AT A DISTANCE!I CAME HOME,TOLD MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER,AND DREW A PICTURE.

THATS ABOUT IT!I WATCHED THE SKIES ALL THE WAY HOME,THINKING THAT MAYBE NORAD WOULD HAVE SCRAMBLED SOMTHING TO CHECK THIS OUT!BUT I DID'NT NOTICE ANY MILITARY FLIGHT! ((NUFORC Note: Probably space debris. Please see other reports. PD)).

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(please note - I don't believe in UFO's in the usual context of alian craft) My wife and I saw 2 bright lights traveling parallel to each other and horizontal from south to north in the eastern sky at about 15 degrees above the horizon. One object was slightly lower and ahead of the other. With respect to appearent speed and path, these might have been airplanes - heading toward DIA.

However, we quickly saw that both had very distinct tails of glowing light. We continued to observe the objects keep the same slow horizontal path for about 40 seconds. Then the objects appeared to break up into an number of smaller objects - followed by their disappearing from view.

The observations were definately inconsistant with a comet-type object. It is possible that these could have been military craft using afterburners - but that would not explain the break up into smaller fragments. We are puzzled.

Have others reported seeing the same thing? I would love to hear from you on this. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001.

Please see following URL for details: .

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Blinking object entering atmosphere. This is an extremely questionable occurance. I was waiting for a friend in a parking lot.

There was a ton of light pollution around. Target, Safeway, lots of big shopping centers and stores was in the immediate area with huge parking lots. I looked up in the Northern sky.

I was on Colfax Avenue at Quail. As I looked up, I spotted this ball light which was white around and an undetermined color in between the white. This blinked and flashed as it must have entered the atmosphere.

However, it did not leave a tail behind! This looked very very similar to a space craft entering the atmosphere but didn't see any recordings of occurance of this date and time especially anything heading northward! I was curious if there was another meteor shower going on, but there was no record that I could find of that either. The reason I ask this, is that there were a couple other objects of same style of craft that must have entered the atmosphere. Has anyone looked into this?.

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Black Triangle near downtown Littleton,CO My buddy and I had just walked out of his apt (near Federal/Bowles) and I always make a joke about something in the sky--but this time there was something there. We stood out there and watched a huge Black Triangle move north (west side of Federal). It made no noise at all, I could see three lights, one in each corner, one red, one blueish and one green.

I know it was very close to the ground, but not that close (there is a building right there that is a few stories.) We lost site of it after about 5mins or so. My best est is that it about as big as a city block? I am a Professional Trucker--I see stuff from time to time.

My buddy is a Mgr for a specialty sporting goods company. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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We saw five oval shaped objects streak across the sky on November 20, 2001. They flew across the sky one by one as if chasing each other. They were going faster than anything we have ever seen.

One came by and then every 20 or so seconds afterwards another one flew by. We saw lights hit the fourth object then we saw it explode. The Fifth UFO was flying close to the fourth when it exploded.

((NUFORC Note: We will request that this student have reports from the other witnesses submitted to our Center. PD)).

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triangle with one spot on each corner and one big one in the middle. I was riding in my moms car on my way to boy scouts. I always lay my hed up aginst the car window and watch the sky.

This night it was very cloudy and dark. Iwas looking at the clouds when i saw a black triangle in the sky. it was hard to see but i know it was there because it was darker then the clouds.

It had one bright lite on each corner and one big lite in the middle. I watched this hover over the houses for a long time. Soon we made a turn so that i could not see it any more but the whole time a watched it it was just staying in the same spot.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).

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Group of faint red lights flying in a boomerang formation very high and quiet While looking at the Leonid meteor shower, I noticed a satellite traversing the sky directly overhead, that satellite was moving in a NNE direction. While looking at the satellite I saw a group of faint red lights moving in a boomerang formation from North to South that intersected the satellite path. The red lights clearly passed in front of the satellite.

I did not file this report until I reasoned everything I saw that night and I went to the Satellite Prediction Report that I recieved from http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.

gov/RealTime/JPass/PassGenerator/.the satellite I may have seen was proabably ALOUETTE 1 or RadarSat.but I know for sure that the red lights I saw were not a plane or satellite.

I asked my next door neighbor who was outside also with his Celestron telescope 'did you see that' and he said 'yes I see it too.your are not crazy'.

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Bright lights hovering very low and changing colors. It was around 4:20am on the 18th of November. We were dropping a friend off when we noticed a very bright blue light.

It was very dark out and we thought it might have been a car in the mountains. There were lots of cars going up and down the mountains because of the meteor showers, then we realized that cars don't have bright blue lights. We were driving east for about 2mins and we kept looking back at it.

At that point it was right behind us and it looked like it was following us so we stopped and looked at it. It was hovering pretty low. We didn't know what it was and we were curious so we turned around to get a better view of it.

Than it looked like it was trying to get away from us because it was moving backwards. We kept driving towards it and it went back further towards the mountains and got smaller and dimmer. It looked as if it was trying not to be noticed.

We got bored so we turned around again but we didn't keep our eyes off of it and while we were driving away it started to rise up into the air really quick. It was changing colors like blue, green, orange, red and white. It kept getting brighter and switching positions in matters of seconds in the sky.

We were still driving and the object was rising into the sky at a fast rate and than we couldn't see it anymore.

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Black triangle with three lights over Windsor My wife in I were sitting in our hot tub watching the Leonid meteor shower when all of the sudden we both noticed flying directly above us three orangish/yellowish lights moving in a northern direction. The lights were round and were arranged in each corner of what seemed to be a perfect triangle. The rest of the object was black.

It was moving at a very fast rate of speed and completely silent. I'd also appeared to be flying at a very low altitude. ((NUFORC Note: We have received many reports of an object, or objects, allegedly witnessed during the dramatic Leonid meteor shower of 2001, which do not appear compatible with traditional meteoric events.

Please see other reports. PD)).

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Blinking white light moving unnaturally Myself, my wife, and a good friend of ours drove out as far east as we could get on Smoky Hill Road to escape the light pollution of the city to watch the Leonoid meteor shower. As we arrived, the sky was a mostly cloudy but we hoped it would clear. It was very cold (mid 30's Fareheit) outside.

As we sat in the car, we were facing directly east. As we were looking for meteors, my wife commented that all she saw was an airplane "or something" just above the horizon, due east of us. When she mentioned it, we started observing it also.

It was too far away from us to make out any details of a craft. I can only guess, but I'd say it was ~5 miles away from us. It was a white light, looked about the intensity of landing lights on a commercial airliner.

It was blinking very rapidly with a very consistent strobe-like rhythm. The strobe frequency seemed almost like an everyday jetliner, however it lacked the tell-tale red nav light on the top. Since we couldn't see any meteors due to the clouds, we watched it for a bit.

The light moved a bit from the north to the south (approximately 3-4 degrees) and maintained what appeared to be a very low altitude. I guessed it might be a car driving up a road and the headlights appearing to pulsate due to roadside trees crossing their path. Just as I said this, the light jumped straight up ~10 degrees above the horizon.

The movement was deliberate and VERY swift. This was certainly not a car and no aircraft that I've ever seen could have ascended this quickly. It moved an apparent 5 degrees in much less than a second.

We were somewhat surprised at this movement, but as we are all fairly skeptical and scientific minds, we again guessed this must have been some sort of aircraft. As we watched it began to move south, but as it moved, it bounced up and down very, very quickly. Again, I can't stress enough that common airplanes or helicopters do not move this fast or in this fashion.

As it headed south it slowed dramatically and then headed north again, it appeared not to even stop when changing direction. It accellerated just as quickly as it decellerated after reversing direction. This change of direction was simply amazing.

It seemed to have the dexterity of a small insect. It moved up and down and north to south for several minutes as we watched in awe, all the time trying to understand what the heck we were watching. I suppose the natural thing to do is to try and explain it away, but there was nothing that we could think of that could maneuver like this.

After a few minutes of this, it travelled deliberately south/southwest of us and passed behind a hill that obscured our vision. The other side of the hill that we could see was the town of Parker, which had many lights of its own and made it difficult to track. We saw many lights that seemed to match this one, but couldn't be sure as they didn't appear to move.

We stayed for three hours at that location and eventually saw the meteors. The light we were watching was very clearly *not* a meteor.

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5, red, triangular shaped, crafts fly across the night sky in Colorado. There were 4 of us laying out in the back yard to watch the Leonid Meteor shower (it was the day before the peak, but there were a few.) Person #1 is male, 16, and in the 10th grade in high school.

Person #2 is female, 16, and in 11th grade in high school. Person #3 is male, 16 and in 11th grade in high school. Person #4 is female, 14, and homeschooled.

Person #1 and #4 are brother and sister. The sky was crystal clear. Person #1 fell asleep.

At approx 10:10 pm persons 2, 3, and 4 all saw 5, red, jagged triangular shaped crafts, flying in a perfect V shape across the sky. They stayed in perfect formation, and flew really fast from east to west. They didn't make a sound, and seemed to be flying at about 150 ft above.

We were all frozen, staring at them with disbelief until after they passed. Then, petrified, we all ran inside as fast as we could and told person # 1 and 4 mother about what we saw. We then looked up "UFO sightings in Colorado", online and found this site.

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Large boomerang-shaped craft seen during meteor storm in the Denver, Colorado area. During the Leonid meteor storms, a witness described in great detail a boomerang shaped craft larger than a commercial airliner that was viewed for a full 15-20 seconds as it crossed the horizon. It was viewed for another thirty seconds or so until it left the observer's field of vision.

It was described as being dark, dull-rust in color with several lights on it's underside.

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When returing from hunting elk seen a green blob falling down leaving a green trail behind then it blew up and lit up the whole valley.

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It was boomerang shaped with no lights and it had an irredescent appearance to it. My wife and I were looking up and talking about the Orion constellation when we both spotted a strange, irredescent looking object moving across the sky to the south. It was shaped like a boomerang.

I commented to my wife that it had the same shape as a stealth bomber. There were no lights. We both described it as looking like a massive flock of birds moving in a v formation, but very fast and silent.

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Daylight disc , Jeffco Colorado , 2001 In the fall of 2001 , my elderly father and I were attending a high-school football playoff game on a bright late-fall Sunday afternoon at the beautiful North Jeffco stadium , nestled right against the foothills of the Colorado front range . At one point , a jet roared overhead , and many spectators immediately looked up ( a not-unusual reaction immediately following the 9/11 debacle ! ) and saw a 757 heading west at about 5000 ft. altitude .

Everyone looked back down to the action on the field.and my father goes " What the hell is THAT ? " . I looked back up , and on a south to north heading , at a hieght of no more than a thousand or so feet , a small , oval or egg shaped , brightly reflecting silver object was zipping at a good clip , disappearing to the north in a matter of less than half a minute .

My Dad was in WWII , well versed in estimating distance , speed , and aircraft identification , and I have been an aircraft watcher and fan for over 35 years.and niether of us have ever seen anything to compare with the high speed or odd shape of this problematical object . ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate.

PD)).

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EGG SHAPED CRAFT NEAR THE FOOTHILLS OF MORRISON Well we were Driving back from the mountins around 145 and my freind saw a soft white light off to the right side of our car, he told me to slow down and we drove slowley for 15 to 20 seconds looking out the window at an egg shaped object with an soft light pointing towrdes the foothills seeming to be looking for somthing. We came to a stop and almost instantaniously the craft vanished torweds the west.

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taking pictures of blue moon. of 5 pictures it was it was there long enough for only 1. the 3rd pic.

i took.