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Colorado UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 227 UFO sighting reports in Colorado from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (49 reports, 21.59% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (45 reports, 19.82% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (38 reports, 16.74% of total).
- 03/05/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (18 reports, 7.93% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (81 reports, 35.68% of total).
Colorado UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Colorado UFO reports from 2020, 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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It was a silentl spherical orb of a dark color or transparently distorting the clouds behind it. As I was observing what appeared to be 3 red flares dissapating in the distant night sky, a blur caught my attention. It appeared to be, at first, a small flock of birds lit by the city glow.
It was too perfectly spherical to be anything flying naturally. As it silently crossed the sky above, I ran into the yard to get a better view. It reminded me of the old Windows 98 screensaver, the one with the rolling ball that distorted the desktop underneath.
It was as though the flying sphere was distorting the hazy clouds behind it. I can't explain it in a way that makes sense because what I was seeing still doesn't make sense to me. It silently blurred across the entire sky in under ten seconds and disappeared just as quickly as it appeared.
Whether or not the supposed flares have anything to do with all this is not clear.
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Something in the sky, government planes appear to be heading toward it. My father in-law noticed a round like object, looked like it was just sitting still in the sky, then he noticed the jets and looked back at the object but it was gone. Same day, just a few minutes later I noticed the Jets in the shy first, a lot of planes heading in the same direction.
Then I looked to my right above the hills in the distance, I could see this oval shape it was in the sky, not moving. I ran to get my camera but as soon as I returned it was gone.
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Orange-tinged light faded for 10s and reappeared in slightly different position. No debris trail or noise. Used stargazing app to rule out planet or star.
Observed a stationary, bright, orange-tinged light (as large as a bright star) in eastern sky. It was below and to the right/south of Orion. I observed for several minutes before remarking aloud that it had to be Mars.
As I said so it faded and disappeared to black. After about 10 seconds it reappeared slightly higher and to the left/north of where it had been. Remained for about 30 seconds before fading to black again.
There was a small cloud in the eastern sky but it was thin and I could still make out Orion in it; this light was brighter than any around it. I could barely make out faint lights beneath it that appeared to be moving. Recorded with iPhone.
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MADAR Node 75.
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MADAR Node 34.
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I saw this only the next day as I was looking at the photos I took with my IPhone SE 2020. It must be a glitch in the camera. Could a satellite show up this way?.
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Flashing light in Denver, not plane or helicopter. I was driving home either 12-7-20, or 12-8-20, about 18:30. Driving north on Santa Fe (Highway 85).
Saw unusual light, like an airplane but not. It was flashing on and off, slower than an airplane strobe, and then would go off completely, and basically disappear for a few minutes, and then I would see it again. It was completely dark out.
No red or green lights, no spotlight, did not act like a normal airplane or helicopter. Came on and then went off three or four times. Stayed in the same general area but was clearly moving.
Similar in brightness to Jupiter, I think, but in the opposite direction in the sky.
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Triangular object, white lights, silent but incredibly fast. I was checking the lights on my roof when I noticed three white triangular lights shoot across the sky, west to east, from Cheyenne Mountain out towards Peyton/Calhan way. The motion was fast and low, somewhat sweeping; too fast for an aircraft as it was completely silent.
Speed was slower than a shooting star but faster than jet aircraft. Being as low as it was an aircraft would have created a boom; we see jets daily here. It literally disappeared, no change in altitude, only a slight curve in trajectory and then it was gone.
I have been running it through my head for an hour and I cannot logically explain it.
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At 11:53 pm Sunday December 6th my husband was standing outside our hotel room in Fort Collins Colorado facing east. When my husband saw a Large orange fireball he alerted me as I looked. I also saw an extremely large Fireball, about the size of our 1998 Chevy Tahoe.
It was traveling very fast from south to north in direction then appeared to fall to the ground. Th.
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MADAR Node 75.
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After sunset, looking to the West towards Grand Junction, CO we observed a row of lights, perfectly spaced apart, climbing from just above the horizon, and the disappearing. These lights were rather slow moving. Their brightness did not change and they did not flash or twinkle.
They were quite a distance from our location, so size of each craft is unknown. They ascended from just above horizon, climbing at an approximately 45 degree angle towards the North. My Husband observed them driving home on I-70 westbound.
When he got home, he immediately came and got me to see. I saw about 1 minute of the event.
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These flying objects were flown with precision and their flight patterns were perfectly sequenced and it was highly organized. I saw a sequence of lights that looked like stars moving through the sky from a single origin point to a single end point. They were all perfectly and evenly spaced and moving at the exact same speed.
There were another plane flying at another point in the sky so I could distinguish between the plane and these other ufos. These objects moved from point a to point b for a duration of 2-3 minutes until the last one was gone. If these were planes and not ufos than it was a highly coordinated flight sequence between a huge squadron of planes to all be flying at the exact same speed in such a long linear fashion.
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Uniform diagonal line of lights slowly moving across sky The slow moving line of lights appeared to be coming from the south west. The lights, which looked too close to be satellites and too far and not blinking to be planes, were in a diagonal line. Though they were uniform in their diagonal line, they were not uniform in the spacing between them.
They moved out of sight after about 2 minutes.
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Line of individual lights in Boulder County A line of lights was traveling across the sky from west travelling north east. They disappeared one by one (not behind a cloud because they never reappeared). There were around 20 of the individual lights.
They appeared to be traveling in a straight line. It’s pretty clear here tonight and we can see stars.
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Observed 15-20 white lights evenly spaced apart moving semi vertically in unison in the mountain sky. 15-20 white lights in semi vertical line in the sky. All lights evenly spaced apart all moving synchronized.
Kept driving in unpopulated area, 30 seconds later saw 4 evenly spaced light in the sky horizontal, then they disappeared. Myself (49 year old R.N.
) and my 16 year old daughter observed this. Tried to videotape the sighting, however it was too dark to capture on an IPhone.
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16 Lights following each other in a row String of lights, each following each other in formation of a line. Slowly traveled across sky from south to north horizon. Some lights traveled closer to one light then back to a well spaced distance from the other light.
Each was about half the light of Venus. They only were white light in color. No flashing lights like air planes.
Seemed to hover and float. No sound. Took about five minutes to travel from one horizon to the other.
I was the only one that witnessed this although I'm sure anyone in my city probably saw it too. I am a retired computer network engineer. I witnessed this in front of my residence.
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A saw a few dozen or so single white lights flying slowly in a perfect straight line. Looked about 1,000 ft. in elevation and a few hundred feet apart.
The movement was slow at about 20 mph with a heading of NE tracking over Centennial airport. All lights were white and about as bright as the stars in the sky. They made no noise and didn't exhibit any movement besides the straight line track.
I saw the trail end.
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5:30 or 5:40. Saw about 30 lights traveling from west to east. Evenly spaced across the entire visible night sky.
Very high up, possibly in orbit.
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Strange lights in a straight line Looked like a straight line of dim stars that didn’t move they just dimmed till I could no longer see them. I took a picture.
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strange 10+ perfectly diagonal lights over boulder, colorado foothills saw ~10 lights in the sky, evenly spaced in a line, fading in and out like i've seen before. some would get brighter, others would dim and it would repeat. eventually they all faded out after 1 minute of watching.
hard to say if it was multiple crafts or part of 1. what made this especially weird is they were not moving, from what i could see, about 5 miles away? and they were perfectly diagonal in the sky. been looking for news on what it could potentially be but nothing yet.
i've had similar encounters and they behaved the same. my footage is shit but it was completely black out and i'm shooting maybe 5 miles away.
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 49 reported sightings | 21.59% of all reports |
Triangle | 23 reported sightings | 10.13% of all reports |
Circle | 22 reported sightings | 9.69% of all reports |
Formation | 21 reported sightings | 9.25% of all reports |
Sphere | 15 reported sightings | 6.61% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 5.29% of all reports |
Unknown | 7 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 1.76% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 1.76% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 0.88% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2020 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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March | 45 reported sightings | 19.82% of all reports |
January | 25 reported sightings | 11.01% of all reports |
April | 23 reported sightings | 10.13% of all reports |
December | 21 reported sightings | 9.25% of all reports |
July | 18 reported sightings | 7.93% of all reports |
May | 17 reported sightings | 7.49% of all reports |
November | 16 reported sightings | 7.05% of all reports |
September | 14 reported sightings | 6.17% of all reports |
June | 13 reported sightings | 5.73% of all reports |
February | 12 reported sightings | 5.29% of all reports |
August | 12 reported sightings | 5.29% of all reports |
October | 11 reported sightings | 4.85% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Thursday | 38 reported sightings | 16.74% of all reports |
Wednesday | 37 reported sightings | 16.30% of all reports |
Friday | 35 reported sightings | 15.42% of all reports |
Saturday | 34 reported sightings | 14.98% of all reports |
Monday | 30 reported sightings | 13.22% of all reports |
Sunday | 27 reported sightings | 11.89% of all reports |
Tuesday | 26 reported sightings | 11.45% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/05/20 | 18 reported sightings | 7.93% of all reports |
03/25/20 | 6 reported sightings | 2.64% of all reports |
12/04/20 | 6 reported sightings | 2.64% of all reports |
01/14/20 | 5 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
04/17/20 | 4 reported sightings | 1.76% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 81 reported sightings | 35.68% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 64 reported sightings | 28.19% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 24 reported sightings | 10.57% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 21 reported sightings | 9.25% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 19 reported sightings | 8.37% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 18 reported sightings | 7.93% of all reports |
All Colorado Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Colorado, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Colorado
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Colorado.