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Colorado UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 133 UFO sighting reports in Colorado from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (27 reports, 20.30% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 15.04% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 17.29% of total).
- 09/19/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 3.01% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (52 reports, 39.10% of total).
Colorado UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Colorado UFO reports from 2019, 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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MADAR Node 83.
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I was driving southbound on S. Chambers Rd. nearing Compark Blvd.
(at the Centennial/Parker border) when a bright, solid-white light appeared out of nowhere at a very low altitude to the left of me in the pre-dawn darkness. It zipped south-eastward in the same trajectory as my car, veered northward and down before it just blinked out. It was much too low & fast for the distant flights ascending/descending out of DIA and much too fast for the smaller planes allowed in the immediate Centennial airspace.
The light was more solidly encompassing, rather than just a twinkle on a plane or helicopter. My car was the only one on the road in all directions at 5am so there were no head- or tail-lights anywhere in the vicinity to have been reflected on my car windows or against anything external. I've never seen anything like this before until last month when my husband and I both were startled by a nearly identical occurrence.
Two sightings of my own seems both noteable and worthy of reporting.
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Upon leaving a friends house around 10:30pm, we walked outside the front door (facing east coming outside) and noticed a blinking light in the sky which was about 2miles away and around 300-400ft off the ground headed in our direction. The light was blinking red, white, and green in the same arythmic display as a modern commercial airplane, but very bright, much brighter than normal craft. However I passed this off as a plane, being an 8yr airforce vet I was around all sorts of aircraft and nothing caught my attention of being abnormal.
But then the aircraft banked left very hard, not a curved or even slightly tight bank that of a small single engine or even that of a helicopter, but an almost 90°degree turn and speed up very quickly heading north. The object continued to speed up and then banked left again heading west. It did not slow down or take a wide turn, this time it was a direct 90 degree turn.
It traveled west for about 1mile in the matter of seconds. At this time the craft came to a dead stop. And when I mean dead stop I mean from a couple hundred miles an hour to complete stop with ZERO deceleration before stopping.
At this time the my wife and son are very afraid and get in the car begging me to get in. I am personally just in complete awe and excitement because I have never witnessed something behave in this nature. To me this was completely impossible and only something you see through CGI in movies.
The craft sat in place for about 5seconds and then continued heading west again slowly at first but picking up speed. I would estimate the craft traveled another mile before stopping completely in place yet again for maybe half a second then turned left again heading south at the same speed it was before it stopped. It then traveled for another 3-400yds very quickly before coming to a dead stop again and hovering in place for another 10sec.
It slowly headed west for maybe 100yds and then banked right, heading north, leaving my line of sight behind the house in front of us. I jumped in the car and tried to get my wife to follow it. Her and my son were extremely scared and worried and she ignored my wishes to try and follow the object.
I never gained sight of the objec6 again.
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Noticed a bright light Similar to a plane when it’s facing you, and then a second later it dropped really fast and disappeared.
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Oval coloful huge craft stunning to look at this the second time the first time over Rangely Colorado was around the 10th of dec and seems to be hanging around in this part of the usa.
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Bright shifting lights seen over Buckley Air Force Base I was driving in my car and looked out my window to see what looked like four very large bright stars, in a perfect square. There were located in proximity to/above Buckley Airforce Base, which was north of my location. As I watched the lights, they shifted from a square to a diamond formation.
In the blink of an eye, two more similar objects appeared next to them, as they gravitated towards each other and made some what if a zig zag pattern. A seventh light/flying object appeared next to them, out of nowhere. They all shifted to create a horizontal line.
At this time, I turned the corner in my neighborhood and lost sight for about 14 seconds as I drove down my street. I pulled into my driveway, jumped out of my car, and ran straight to my back yard in time to see a single bright light (a little to the east of where I originally saw the cluster of lights) shoot straight upwards into the sky, almost like a reverse shooting star. The sky was quiet after that! , I saw nothing else.
The lights disappeared as quickly as they appeared. They moved fast, were completely soundless, no color or blinking lights.
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Saw lights in cicle formation over DIA airport, some dashing across the sky really fast. Some in pairs. But all coming to and from a central light circle formation.
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Dancing lights over Montbello (Denver) Driving home from Montbello (Denver) to Brighton- my husband and I see several lights, too many to count! It started as a circle and the lights multiplied and the circle shape became huge! Some lights appeared and others disappeared. It was like they were performing. At one point all the lights went all ways and one went right over us.
We were so shocked my husband stopped right in the middle of the street. All the lights looked like they were coming from above and all the sudden they all became one light and then there was nothing. The lights all were white color.
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2 flashing lights seen above Thornton. We were driving north on I-25 between 104th and 120th. I noticed odd blinking lights.
There was two of them, blinking at the same time about 2 second intervals. It seemed like they might have been connected because they moved at the same time and at the same speed, however I could not see any shape - I was too far away. The light was bright white in color.
The only illumination that was seen were the two lights. When they stopped flashing there was no other source of light, no red lights, no green lights - nothing. After watching it for about 5 minutes while driving it simply vanished.
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Out walking my dog I looked up at the sky and saw a small light moving. At first I thought it was a plane. Then I saw another light and another.
Thought I was seeing things, so I looked away and the lights were still there and moving in a straight line or going in a circle.
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A string of 30 lights just appeared spaced evenly from North West to South East then turned South Saw what I thought was a satellite entering from North West and headed South East then turned south. Then another and ended up being 30 in a line spaced evenly except one very close to the one in front of it and then at the 20 count one came in from the North and joined.
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Perfect line of approximately 30 to 40 star like object across the sky going SE from the NW. While opening my gate this morning I happened to look up and see what looked like a perfect row of stars. Except this was spread out perfectly and moving from NW to SE in what seemed to be an endless line.
I stared for approximately 1 minute thinking I wasn't fully awake. Finally, I ran in and woke my wife to verify what I was really seeing. She couldn't believe it either but it was happening.
Counted 21 by at that time and I told her I watched for about a minute before even running to get her. I estimated about 20 before she was able to get out to see.
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A cigar shape craft descending at a 35 degree angle with one large lights at each end.Disappeared quickly We were sitting in our living room in La Veta. Approximately 6:30 pm looking east out of the window.
When a craft descended at roughly a 35 degree angle. We believed it was going to crash into the town, It was a cigar shaped craft. At first we thought it was a military craft prior to its appearance we heard what sounded like military aircraft.
We then saw the lights, one large light at each end of the craft. As quickly as it appeared it disappeared.We went out with binoculars.
The Sky was overcast.
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MADAR Node 156.
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Enormous disc moving westward near Elizabeth, CO Viewed 3 objects low in the southern sky moving slowly from east to northwest (the objects were perhaps 3 miles east of Elizabeth and approximately 5 to 25 miles from my vantage point). I initially thought they were merely aircraft since all objects were intermittently flashing white and red light (the dominant color throughout was red). However, the objects were silent, flew in a straight line equidistant apart, and maintained that formation throughout my observation to the south.
As they proceeded into the western sky, the lights no longer flashed and instead glowed red. As the objects moved into the northwestern sky, I noted a curvature in the lights which more closely resembled an enormous disc. I went indoors to retrieve my wife, who also observed the object until it moved out of sight.
We are both retired and scan/enjoy the sky daily from our patio observing all manner of aircraft. This was markedly different. My wife was a financial analyst and I am a retired 4th grade teacher.
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MADAR Node 156.
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MADAR Node 95.
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29 lights appeared one by one from the same point in the early morning sky I saw 29 pin points of light appear one by one at a point in the sky and follow the same trajectory. There may have been more lights, but that is the total from when I started counting. Most were evenly spaced apart and others were closer together, but all followed the same flight path.
They moved slowly and continued until they disappeared on the horizon.
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A number of separate slowly swirling lights what appeared to be disk like.
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At 4:40-4;58am my husband and myself witnessed a line of star-like lights That seemed to enter our atomosphere and move across the sky traveling south to north east. The lights were in a straight line formation, evenly spaced except every 8-10 lights, two were traveling almost abreast. They were moving at a steady speed.
Definitely not aircraft. We thought satellite except for the numbers. We believe there were 75-100!! It was strange how the lights entered into our our view.
Almost like they flew in through a port hole above Louisville Co. We are educated and not crazy. This was weird.
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 27 reported sightings | 20.30% of all reports |
Circle | 15 reported sightings | 11.28% of all reports |
Other | 13 reported sightings | 9.77% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 7.52% of all reports |
Formation | 8 reported sightings | 6.02% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 4.51% of all reports |
Sphere | 5 reported sightings | 3.76% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 3.76% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 3.76% of all reports |
Flash | 5 reported sightings | 3.76% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 3.01% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 3.01% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 2.26% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.50% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 1.50% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2019 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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September | 20 reported sightings | 15.04% of all reports |
October | 19 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 19 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
December | 17 reported sightings | 12.78% of all reports |
November | 14 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
May | 11 reported sightings | 8.27% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 6.02% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 3.76% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 3.76% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 3.01% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 3.01% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Sunday | 23 reported sightings | 17.29% of all reports |
Wednesday | 22 reported sightings | 16.54% of all reports |
Monday | 21 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Thursday | 19 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Saturday | 18 reported sightings | 13.53% of all reports |
Friday | 16 reported sightings | 12.03% of all reports |
Tuesday | 14 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2019 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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09/19/19 | 4 reported sightings | 3.01% of all reports |
05/25/19 | 4 reported sightings | 3.01% of all reports |
12/11/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.26% of all reports |
07/24/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.26% of all reports |
07/10/19 | 3 reported sightings | 2.26% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 52 reported sightings | 39.10% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 27 reported sightings | 20.30% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 22 reported sightings | 16.54% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 13 reported sightings | 9.77% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 10 reported sightings | 7.52% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 6.77% of all reports |
All Colorado Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Colorado, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Colorado
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Colorado.