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Colorado UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 113 UFO sighting reports in Colorado from 2018 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (31 reports, 27.43% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 13.27% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (25 reports, 22.12% of total).
- 09/01/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 7.08% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (44 reports, 38.94% of total).
Colorado UFO Sighting Reports in 2018
This is a sampling of 20 Colorado UFO reports from 2018, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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4 lights in the sky making shape formations, triangle, square, line. then disappear , reappear. Countinueing for 5+ mins.
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Several massive fireballs disappearing and reappearing in different #s, 2 to 4 to 3. No apparent formation or shape, would reappear in a different spots sometimes, but still close to each other. My GF and I were walking to meet friends and we both saw them.
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I was taking a walk near Colorado Springs and took photos as it was a beautiful day. In one photo I saw a blue orb. I thought the sun may have caused a strange reflection on lense of I phone.
I did not see it with naked eye. 6 months ago, I saw a different kind of UFO in same location.
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Reddish orange flashing lights in a pattern. Rimmed the triangular, boomerang shape. Would hover in one spot, as soon as I thought it had disappeared it would reappear moving/ hovering south west.
Finally vanished. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Flashing blue light hovered over FAA center in Longmont before zipping away. I was sitting at a traffic light on 17th Ave. and Hover St.
when I witnessed a pale blue flashing light overhead moving roughly in an east/northeast direction. It was moving steadily until it appeared to stop and hover right above the FAA Air Traffic Control Center. It ceased flashing when it stopped moving, and was then just a steady, bright round light.
After a few seconds, it took off moving again and resumed flashing. It was gone over the eastern horizon in a matter of seconds. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Clear objects with flashing lights over Carson Elementary school. Looking east from playground at Carson Elementary School. Dark, stormy cloud cover made the objects more obvious.
Could not tell shape. Approximately 8-10 objects appeared to be clear blades with flashing white lights (one or two each?) flying at varying speeds and heights. No sounds; variety of movements and groupings.
Tried to take pictures but too far away and too small. There were other people on the playground with me, but I did not think fast enough to ask if they saw them.
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Loud organ like sounds over hose at 3am less than one minute. Heard loud organ like sounds over house House one half mile from any other stucksures Very loud sound checked cats they were not scared but were up looking around. No other sounds like helicopter, etc.
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I was driving down my long country road, and I saw a random white light just floating in the sky. Then it started to flash colors, red, green, blue, yellow. And it was just hovering.
I turned down my driveway and it’s about a mile long, this thing was so close I called my dad to come outside because I was frantic. My dad saw it, and it almost landed in our back field. Then we ran inside and locked the door and watched it for about an hour or so from our kitchen window.
But also less than a week ago my friends and I saw a green object in sky moving oddly and fast. There was four of us in the car when we all saw it.
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Red glowing sphere hovering just about skyline moving back and forth Rectangular shaped craft with a circular bright glow around it; brighter than a star, almost looked like a planet but in the wrong spot. Hovered and went side to side in the sky near the skyline just after sunset. Stayed for about an hour then disappeared.
Has been occurring around the same time and place each night since (3 nights, 11/12/18-11/14/18) Odd colored lights were seen coming from it and it seems to hover in circles almost looking for something. Several military looking aircrafts were seen flying around near it maybe trying to check it out. It was a weird time of night for so many planes, around 6-8 pm mst.
Planes also usually don’t fly this direction (not a normal flight path).
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Facing east, set of 8 bright lights flying in the shape of a boomerang or wing, but going SW, pointing out like an arrow, second from the last night on ends began moving in a helix motion around the lights on either side. I was able to follow it easily in the sky until it passed behind a dark cloud coming in from the front range.
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The light that that caught my attention was the one that was flying the lowest, it was heading west flying up and down side to side, then it began to travel east, it seemed like it was bouncing up and down. It had a red color that blinked. The other two lights were flying higher.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Facing the Sangre DeCristo mount range, in the Navajo housing community, which is under a disclosed Air Force testing and training zone; I saw a star flash into view light a mega watt LED in the sky- dimmed then free floated like cotton fluffed picked up by a calm breeze, slow down then with a final flash in the pan vanished. Another person with me saw and stood in equal astonishment. This appeared after we were trying to locate the source of a high pitched wirring noise that was amping up in tone- this is when the light ball appeared, and the sound stopped.
Then from green horn and Spanish peak in came two jets over the valley heading towards the Sangre de Cristos. Jets are common here, so are lightless black helicopters that shake my walls, but the light is something else’s entirely. I saw the light before but chalked it up to tired eyes, as did my boyfriend, but seeing to together was assurance of sanity we both welcomed.
FYI, we are not drug users, don’t! drink and are rational thinkers with professional careers. We’re new homeowners in the area and moved here to watch the stars in peace-didn’t know then were buying under a military fly zone.
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Saw 3 sets of 3 lights in triangular format. One stationary, one moving slow, one moving fast. All at different levels.
Appeared.
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3 orbs (gold, green & white) seen over Southernmost Pueblo over several months & currently active Dec. 2018 - Present. Sighting was witnessed at a hilltop near the "Dogpatch" community of Pueblo.
The hilltop offered fantastic views of the city, looking directly to the South. For many years, my cousin and I would sit in our vehicles and spend our time talking, watching videos and listening to music. Recently, starting in October of 2018, we began seeing bright orbs hovering over what appeared to be the Southernmost part of town.
Further investigation as to the whereabouts of the crafts led to Stembeach, a private lake outside of town or the Lake Minnequa. The crafts appeared first as a golden color, then as green and finally bright white. The crafts would usually appear in the same location, varying slightly in altitude.
We still continue to see these objects (It is currently March of 2019).
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Around 8:30PM at dusk 2 disc shaped, dull/ white in color flew side by side in a perfectly straight line from East to west in the southern sky at a very high rate of speed, well over the speed of sound suddenly stopped perfectly together and shot off dead south towards New Mexico. Though out the night we witnessed up to 50 of these discs dancing throughout the sky from a dull color and would light bright white when making sudden stops and cuts. At one point about 30-40 of these disc formed together, almost like a swarm of bees slowly moving from west to south eventually shooting dead south in a flash.
I took 2 videos on my phone thinking it would not be powerful enough to capture the dull, silent fast disc.rechecking, I did capture them! Never seen anything like it.
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Lone Tree/Highlands Ranch UFO tracking north to south pattern Had the same pattern of travel North up Quebec to I-470 then south across Lone Tree to Highlands Ranch. Would travel consistent moderate speed. Then the double white solid lights on each end with red blinking light.
Thought it was a drone, but it traveled up to the sky too far upward and then would drop down and freeze in place and change direction. Always consistent with speed, it stopped when I stopped in my car, I believed it was following me. The object waited for me at one point at a friend's home, and as I came out of the house an hour after I saw the object it then passed right above me again near the south of Highlands Ranch open space field.
It flew away, and then went back up north past I-470 and then back over to where I lived in Lone Tree.
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2 white objects no observable markings, no lights very high in sky. A commercial aircraft passed beneath objects during observation. Estimated height of observed objects is 20-30,000 feet.
2 objects starting evenly spaced between on the same level right object slowly drifted down keeping same distance from other object. Over a span of 30-40 minutes as the sun began to set right object began to pull more to the right and still below left object. Left object never changed position at all during observation.
Group observed both objects dissapear at the same moment. Overall observation of event exceeded an hour.
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White Orbs above Fort Collins. At first, they sat in the mid atmosphere (plane height) slowly moved away from each other. Get about twenty minutes, the left craft went very high, and eventually left out sight.
Thought craft took a longer time to leave the atmosphere.
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White Orbs above Fort Collins At first they sat in the mid atmosphere (plane height) slowly moved away from each other. Get about twenty minutes, the left craft went very high, and eventually left out sight. Thought craft took a longer time to leave the atmosphere.
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Two shiny, medal ovals were stationary in the sky for about 30 minutes. I watched until the sun went down and was able to tell they were medal as they reflected the sunset. They sat in the same place until it was dark then appeared to get smaller and faded away.
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2018 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 31 reported sightings | 27.43% of all reports |
Circle | 17 reported sightings | 15.04% of all reports |
Unknown | 12 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 5.31% of all reports |
Flash | 6 reported sightings | 5.31% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 4.42% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 4.42% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2018 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 15 reported sightings | 13.27% of all reports |
January | 14 reported sightings | 12.39% of all reports |
March | 14 reported sightings | 12.39% of all reports |
February | 12 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
June | 12 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
September | 11 reported sightings | 9.73% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 9.73% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 5.31% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 4.42% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 4.42% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2018 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 25 reported sightings | 22.12% of all reports |
Tuesday | 21 reported sightings | 18.58% of all reports |
Sunday | 20 reported sightings | 17.70% of all reports |
Monday | 19 reported sightings | 16.81% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 9.73% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 4.42% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2018 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/01/18 | 8 reported sightings | 7.08% of all reports |
03/01/18 | 4 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
03/02/18 | 4 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
02/13/18 | 4 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
07/01/18 | 3 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2018 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 44 reported sightings | 38.94% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 34 reported sightings | 30.09% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 15 reported sightings | 13.27% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 8 reported sightings | 7.08% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 5.31% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 6 reported sightings | 5.31% of all reports |
All Colorado Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2018
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Colorado, in 2018
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Colorado
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Colorado.