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Colorado UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 130 UFO sighting reports in Colorado from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (22 reports, 16.92% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 12.31% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (26 reports, 20.00% of total).
- 12/03/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 4.62% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (40 reports, 30.77% of total).
Colorado UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Colorado UFO reports from 2021, 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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I saw two different (or changing) objects about two minutes apart but in the same approximate location. I went outside to photograph a growing plume of smoke from the nearby fire using my iPhone 11. I took a photo and went inside to show my husband and when enlarging the photo saw the first shape.
I then went outside to see if I could see it again and in roughly the same location, was a different shaped object. Neither object appeared to move though it was extremely windy. The photos illustrate the shape and color of the objects taken two minutes apart.
Photos below include the original photo followed by an enlargement of the photo, for both objects.
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Extremely bright stationary craft I was driving east of Colorado Springs between 5-5:30 and noticed and extremely bright, what appeared to be circular object in the western sky which appears to be directly over NORAD. I continued to drive south and then west for over 20 minutes and the object didn’t move at all. Just hovered.
As I started driving more west I could barely see some sort of elongation on the object and a faint glow of bluish lights. As I continued west the clouds obscured any further view of it.
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MADAR Node 34 .
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Ball of light caught on video I went out to my back yard to take out the trash around 9;30 PM MST ON December 23, 2021. It appeared from the west. It was a ball of fiery light that changed colors from red to dark red.
I puled out my phone as at moved from north to west in the Athmar park neighborhood in Denver. When I was able to get my phone out and record it went from a big ball of light heading north to a spec of flashing light heading west. I ran into the house to tell my wife and kids.
They followed me to the back yard where I showed them the video I shot and pointed to where i saw it. Then the ball of light appeared again moving north and continued heading north moving very slow. It looked as if the moon had fell out of the sky and turned crimson red.
I began recording. My kids and wife are screaming. I continue to record as we run thru our back door thru the house to the front door.
The ball of light flew over our home in the back so we ran thru the house to the front yard. I am still recording as the ball moves north east. Then it shimmered back and forth rapidly and disappeared.
Not only do I have it on my phone, but when I checked my security cameras it also caught it, infra red. When I was recording running thru my home, my security camera captured me recording it on my cell phone. I downloaded a free software app to blow the footage up.
The footage from my infra red security shows a ball of light with something rotating on the inside of the light . Clear as day. I contacted Mufon and was assigned a case manager who never called me.
He never responded to my phone calls. I contacted Mufon within 24 hours and filed a report. I can't stress enough how close this thing was.
My footage is not grainy I. have three videos of this object. I was in the Airforce and I carried a security clearance.
I know what I saw. I haven't released the footage to any platform. It's only been seen by two other people that live outside my home.
We are a family of five and we all saw it . Me my wife and my three children.
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Multiple lights that turn on off always in the same formation each night With a rooftop view of my patio looking at Denver from the northwest, there are UFOs flying in different directions around the city. One shadowy outlined massive ship to the west of the city. The large ship showed up after a power outage in my area.
I've had mind communication with Aliens for half a year. They tell me they want to change my body into an alien. I can feel the bone below my big toe tightening and getting cut on from time to time.
My legs grew a week ago. I measured. They also go outwards slightly.
Clubbing in my toes as well. Also my arms became longer and my hands look swollen. My ears are now curved and sticking out more.
The voices I hear tell me to look in the mirror and when I do that I can see my face change, not through a camera though. The voices I hear told me to follow a musical artist called Lucii. The pictures of her starting 2 years ago to about 9 months ago all have her face changing.
Her face looks different but she keeps the same tattoos on her body. I attached some pictures of my body changes.
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I was woken up to a strange sound outside of the window, felt too real though. something happened! SOMETHING BIG ….as someone who can feel and absorb other people’s emotions and feelings and whatnot, I was picking up what seems to be … ” Another Life Form”.
I can feel other beings!! .! At the time, I had just moved to a big house out In the country where you have to take a dirt road access to get there, plenty of space and privacy. Secluded, out on the porch, at night, I can see HELLA stars, away from the city lights.
…… So, as an em-path I’ve been having these real odd feelings, stoic, confidence, blessed? Feelings ,But those are not it, just the best words to describe the feeling I felt, and hearing small noises, at night when I’m sleeping, this night, I was woken up, then I felt like I was floating 3 feet above the bed. The feeling over my body was indescribable…. Someone ,or something, was outside My window.
2 more, out poking around the property, I can feel them, and I picked up different things from the feelings I got, I was thinking to myself and said …“what. are… you?” and instantly I had a flood of information come in, like a telepathic type of conversation but it wasn’t really a conversation, I wasn’t even talking or saying anything to myself. And I got answers!!!! Apparently for questions I must have asked!! …but I don’t remember.
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Driving we saw a long, skinny rectangle of doubled up lights in the sky. It appeared for several minutes. We were driving down the road, and out of nowhere a long skinny rectangle of lights appeared in the sky.
First I thought it was the tail of a huge fireball or meteor, but the more I looked at it the more it remained stationary and unchanging in the sky. Almost like an LED strip, with lights doubled up. Very shimmery, sparkley, not moving or changing in any way.
In the sky it was about the size of a pinky finger. We were on a mountain road and it took a few minutes to safely pull the car over, and it remained unchanging for that duration, for approximately two or three minutes. As I got out of the car, it disappeared in place.
I can't quite remember if it faded out slowly or if i was just straining to see it, but it was gone quickly, never moving. Several other cars (maybe 4?) also pulled over abruptly, I assume for the same reason. I am generally a logical, skeptical person, and have been looking online at commonly mistaken UFO's (i.
e. satellites, atmospheric balloons, fireballs, etc.) and nothing looks like this.
I understand that the Star Link satellites were recently launched, but this looks nothing like that. The lights were packed closely together (for example it would be a light, then an open space the size of the light, then another light) It reminded me more of an LED strip of lights packed closely together, and maybe doubled or tripled up. It was beautiful and sort of glimmery or sparkley.
My partner was driving at the time and we both saw the same thing. We were on a remote stretch of highway, clear and bright night sky, no moon or city lights. Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks for your work on this stuff!.
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Trail of lights in the sky that appeared to be on a sideways rotating disc. Craft moved up in the sky and faded away. I was biking home when I stopped to fix my jacket.
I looked up and saw an unusual trail of lights in the sky. I assumed it was the iss, but it was long. A straight line of white dots.
I looked more and saw an outline of an oval, looking like the side of a discus. I pulled out my phone to video it after I saw that it seemed to be rotating, the lights moving up like they were on the side of a rotating disc. As I videoed the scene, I saw the thing move higher in the sky.
Then the lights started to fade and the outline disappeared as the whatever it was faded away into the night.
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Looking to the SW there was a very long straight string of bright white lights moving towards the N very quickly. I have footage. Looking to the SW there was a very long straight string of bright white lights moving towards the N very quickly.
They moved in a straight line as if following each other but the distance between them was uniform throughout, indicating it was one solid craft likely in the cigar shape. It was at least a foot ball field and a half to two foot ball fields in length and moved much faster than the earth is visually spinning. At first I thought it had to be a string of satellites sliding across the sky as the earth was spinning but then I realized they were moving diagonally and much faster than the planes in the immediate area.
I recorded the lights until the began to dim at the front end one by one as if it was traveling behind something else in the sky obscuring my view of it. However, there wasn't even a single cloud that it could have hid behind after it disappeared. My footage isn't the best due to me being so baffled and watching it with my eyes rather than the camera.
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Loud Jet Noise, Round Red Lights flashed North to South, appeared 1 second later further west. Small White Object Went Toward It I was jokingly flashing my flash light at a very bright star in the southwest sky at 6:35 pm. I was out looking for a rock to prop my apt building door.
Approx 2 minutes after I flashed the star, I heard a loud jet noise above my head. (as loud as a jet taking off on the runway) I looked up and a round red light was above my head. I remember thinking I could fit through that hole and wondering if I was going to get beamed or a ray come out.
I was scared. Out of the corner of my eye I saw several flashes of light going on and off to the south. Then the lights were gone and they reappeared approx 1-2 seconds later to the west.
They were all red in color and flashed on and off one at at a time rapidly from north to south taking up the whole half of the sky to the south. The line of lights disappeared and reappeared 1-2 seconds later farther west. this repeated 10 times in total, until I could not see the lights flash across the sky.
Also, not all of the 8-10 lights flashed on, some were only partially visible and the jet noise gradually decreased in loudness until I could not hear it at all toward the last 2 rows of flashing lights. The lights flashed to rapidly to count in a row and seemed to follow I-70 /CO 58 West to the mountains. I waited 2 seconds after the lights were gone and then saw a small white object in the west sky just above and to the right of where the lights disappeared.
The small white object moved 45 degrees descending toward where I last saw the lights. I never saw a craft, a plane or a jet trail.
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Line of lights lasted about 30 seconds, moving quickly at an angle I was walking the dog in our community around 6:42 pm and as usual, was looking at the sky to see what constellations were visible. I saw a rigid formation of lights moving quickly at an angle before disappearing instantly. The sighting lasted about 20-30 seconds.
No discernible sound was emitted.
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Saw the object while in flight During helicopter flight at approximately 1000’ AGL, the pilot saw a strange object that had symmetrical lines while under night vision goggles. The object was very far from the aircraft and moved quickly and flew over top of the helicopter while in flight. One of the crew members were able to take a picture of the object and were later informed by a friend on the ground in another location that they saw the same object and were able to get a video of it.
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MADAR Node 156 .
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Two separate orbs of warm light like fire. Arcing flight path, no sound. Maybe a thousand ft elevation? Moving slow.
At approximately 7:14pm (MT), we saw a bright orange light through the trees above our neighborhood. It was a large, bright warm light, almost like a ball of fire or flare. It moved steadily, arcing North then Northwest at potentially 500-1500ft.
elevation. No sound whatsoever. It disappeared out of sight after a couple minutes of flying overhead.
As it disappeared it seemed to sputter like a meteor losing steam- except much more slowly. Several minutes later, a second object, originating from the same location as the first rose through the trees. Instead of following the same flightpath, it moved east and seemed to fall slowly out of sight, seeming to burn out as it did.
In the absence of its warm light, it seemed grey, dull and ashy- very hard to see.
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A circular craft was flying low paralleling my car on the highway. I had been visiting a friend in Montrose, Colorado on Thanksgiving 2021. I live in Grand Junction, Colorado so after dinner I was driving on highway 50 back home.
At around 8:15pm, I just passed Olathe, Colorado and the Tiger Propane business when I saw a circular craft flying in the tree line near some farms in the area to the right of the highway. The craft was metallic, a dull gray color. Not shiny but dull.
It seemed a little bigger than a large suv. It was a perfect circle. It was flying slightly faster than my car and was only a few hundred feet off the ground.
It came out of the tree line and I got a perfect look at it. It paralleled my car for a mile or two over a large crop area. It then sped up and got ahead of me about a quarter mile.
It then shot across the highway in front of me and then completely disappeared on the other side of the highway. I had my cruise control set at 70mph at the time so the speed of the craft was interesting. When I passed the area of the highway where it crossed the highway the lights in my rear view mirrors became wavy.
It was almost as though I was driving through an area where there was a disturbance in the air. That only lasted a few seconds and then I could easily see the lights behind me. At first I thought it was a weather balloon but it did not move like a balloon.
It also gained speed fast. Also it completely disappeared. I am not a ufo junkie and not someone that reports these kind of things but this incident and what I saw is not something I can forget so I figure I should report it so that if someone wants to they can investigate it.
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MADAR Node 75 .
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MADAR Node 75 .
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A 'star' faded and changed into a cigar-shaped object. Summary: This incident happened about a year ago - the day could be off by 1 or 2 days. I live in Northeast Colorado Springs at just under 6,800 feet elevation.
From my house I have pretty expansive views of the mountains to the west and the skies over Colorado Springs. I had just retired the week prior from my job as a test engineer for GPS satellite control software and was at home. At about 3:30pm I decided to walk around my backyard.
It was still about an hour before it even started to get dark (sunset about 5pm), so I was surprised to see what looked like the evening star (Venus or Jupiter), but it was so early, the sun was still visible in the late afternoon. I thought to myself - this is the brightest I've ever seen the evening star appear in the daytime. (Later, about sunset, I saw the actual evening star and it was a different object - it was not visible at 3:30pm).
The sky was mostly cloudy (I'd say 75% obscured by clouds), not the high wispy ones, but cumulus clouds that obscure the sky. There were openings in the sky between the clouds. I looked to the south and I saw this 'star'- from my location, this placed it about halfway between Peterson Space Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Station.
Its position didn't move - as the clouds would come and go moving from right (west) to left (east) the 'star' was still in the same place. After 5-10 minutes the shape changed; it started to get bigger, fade and disperse - it grew in size up to the size of the moon before dispersing. After another cloud break it was gone, but in its place was this cigar-shaped white object with a black bottom.
I could see no wings or tail. It's possible that it could have been saucer-shaped if it was being seen from a side angle - I couldn't tell. It was not the much rounder tic-tac shape seen in other reported accounts.
It appeared to me to be probably above 14,000 or 15,000 feet high because the clouds were also obscuring the upper portion of Pikes Peak, which is 14,115 feet. The clouds kept moving at a pretty good clip from west to east and would repeatedly hide/show the object. At one point, I could see a regular jet flying almost directly behind it from west to east because I could see its contrail - it appeared to be the normal very small size of a jet cruising at 35,000 feet.
But this object was much bigger and so had to be much closer. I would say it was about the size of a commercial airplane fuselage as it would appear at 15,000 feet; however, it didn't move. For it to be a plane, it would have to have been flying directly into the wind at the exact same speed as the wind in order for it not to move - not likely in my opinion.
I thought - what a perfect location in which to spy down on one side to see Cheyenne Mountain and the other side to spy down on Peterson. It was there for at least 5 minutes and Peterson didn't launch any fighter jets to chase it. (Most of the time I can hear those louder jets take off from Peterson, but I didn't hear any).
Again, I thought this thing must be visible on Peterson's or NORAD's radars, so if they didn't chase this thing, it must either be 1) some kind of known military object or 2) other object not thought to be a threat; otherwise, they would have chased it or something. They didn't. Then after another cloud break, it was gone completely.
I never saw it move - it just disappeared from its location.
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"Foo Fighter" chased by two military helicopters Two military helicopters fly behind my house, Kipling and C-470, low and in arks, as if they are searching for an object or for a person. Leaving for the Costco at Wadsworth and Quincy, 7.3 miles north, I see the helicopters making the same arks as they edge north.
Parking at the Costco, my wife does the shopping, I sit in the car. Faced north in the parking space, I see both helicopters. Between them is a bright light floating between some tree and 4-6 feet in diameter.
The light coming from it is unreflected, and self-luminescent. Another person saw these helicopters at my home location another time along with two F-16s with afterburners. I've heard afterburners many times above the house.
He reported it on NextDoor, but has since disappeared along with his report. I have seen 11 objects in my quadrant of the Denver-metro area. I just discovered this website.
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There are over 400 unnderground in the ridge off Willits lane I have been observing them from 11/26/2021 until 8/11/2022.I originally thought a dozen but as time has gone on there are HUNDREDS! There are several different kinds of shops they have and it's an army. They come out at night and warm up for about 15 minutes to a half hour.
The ground vibrates EVERYNIGHT like a very tiny earth rumbling. I have has several experiences hands on to an extent. This is a MAJOR PROBLEM.
And needs to addressed ASAP.
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 22 reported sightings | 16.92% of all reports |
Circle | 12 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 8.46% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 5.38% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 16 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
January | 14 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
October | 14 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
December | 13 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
July | 13 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
February | 12 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
November | 11 reported sightings | 8.46% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
August | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 5.38% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Friday | 26 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 24 reported sightings | 18.46% of all reports |
Sunday | 23 reported sightings | 17.69% of all reports |
Saturday | 20 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Monday | 15 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Tuesday | 12 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Wednesday | 10 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2021 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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12/03/21 | 6 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
05/06/21 | 5 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
02/11/21 | 4 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
01/03/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
08/07/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
Colorado UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 40 reported sightings | 30.77% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 27 reported sightings | 20.77% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 13.08% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 16 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 16 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 14 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
All Colorado Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Colorado, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Colorado
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Colorado.