Light over Superior, CO
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The report, as filed
Triangular formation of lights observed shortly after sunset, rotated every few seconds. Other aircraft lights observed in area but did
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1999-10-16 → 1999-11-02
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June 14, 2023 · 1:21 PM · CHANGING
Superior, CO
My supervisor is the one that saw the objects first than he told me to look up and see if I could describe what it was. So I grabbed my phone and started recording to zoom in. I did see the 3 objects moving in different patterns. When I went back to my video I noticed that in some parts my phone was recording the floor and I perfectly remember that my phone was not facing the floor at all but on the video it shows that I did. That was very scary and strange to me.
May 25, 2019 · 12:41 AM · LIGHT
Superior, CO
UFO Sighting 2019-05-25 Superior, CO. 12:41am to 12:44am Sitting on my back porch (altitude 5560’) looking at the stars through my night vision goggles with my partner facing a northwesterly direction. Specifically, from the moment the lights were noticed to when they faded from view, the range of vision was about 298-degrees NW to 11-degrees N as the breadth of observation. It was 12:41am when we noticed 20-30 "Lights" in a line traveling North along the Rocky Mountains. They were faint to the eye but strongly visible seen through Military Grade Gen-3 Night Vision goggles. They were white lights. The number of them traveling in a line together was outstanding! Some seemed brighter and bigger than others in the line. It was not a perfectly straight line but fairly straight, as some were higher, while others were lower, but overall it was a line of them. Some were bunched together in clusters with gaps between other small groupings either ahead. Then many seemed to follow one after another individually. The lights were all white. They were solid white lights, not flashing, though some lights seemed to merge into other lights or simply fade out and pop in at a different spot as if appearing from nowhere, but all traveling in northern trajectory together heading from the perspective when they were first noticed. As they traveled farther away the brightness of their lights faded from view. From the moment when they were noticed to when they faded out from view was perhaps 3 to 5 minutes. While I tried to record them on my iPhone 10, they were too faint for the camera to see them. I then tried to place the phone lens to the Night Vision goggles but getting the lens in the right place and then guessing the direction of view from the lens without having my eyes to it made for unfocussed and shaky video footage that did not reveal anything that I could make out, compared to when my eyes were to the lens. I have taken a daytime still image from my back porch to better depict the scene.
September 18, 2017 · 10:55 PM · CHEVRON
Superior, CO
What I saw: It was a clear night, the moon was below the horizon to the east and I was laying outside in Superior, CO, on our patio furniture star gazing above. At 10:55PM, I was astonished to see a rather faint chevron shaped craft come into view from the east and continue to disappear to the west in only 3 seconds time. If I hadn’t been looking in the exact location I was, then I never would have seen it, as it wasn’t particularly bright and was moving extremely fast. It was visible to me within 90 degrees, or half the sky, and then faded away. Before it disappeared the lights seemed to move or deform in relation to one another, each getting closer/further away from one another. For a moment I thought maybe it was 5 separate craft flying in perfect formation, but I had noticed a body structure so this couldn’t have been the case. Odd side note - as I’m writing this the following evening, a large black military helicopter has decided to visit our neighborhood several times. Here are some details about the craft: It made no noise and it was very faint. It was the fastest thing I have ever seen. There were no flashing lights but instead five good sized lights on the underside, two on each side leading to one at the front. I didn’t see the details of the front or the ends of the chevron. The lights or something else partially illuminated the edges of the craft. The color of the lights were whitish-yellow or that of a warm colored light bulb. I could not denote any color to the craft so I assumed it was black like the sky. After it passed, I estimated it to be four fingers wide when I held out my fingers to measure its width. For me, thats about 3 inches wide at 21” from my face. My thoughts after this happened: I thought maybe some kind of cloaking technology was used, as before it disappeared there was a weird distortion of its appearance. The lights seemed to ride an invisible wave, almost like when you look at the sun or bright light when under water - like a pool. I couldn’t specifically tell the altitude of it, but it seemed to be at least as high as the commercial jets, I can’t fathom what the size of this thing could be if it was higher. For what it’s worth: I’m used to seeing a wide variety of aircraft fly overhead while looking at the stars, as DIA is 35 miles away so we get a lot of jets flying over. The commercial jets seem to take about 30 seconds to cover the same area of whatever I saw. I live next to a small airport, and we’ve had every kind of aircraft from Cessnas to Slurry Bombers and F-16s at the local air shows, they are all audible, even the very high altitude jets. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hi Peter, I’m a Coast Insider and knew to come to your site as I hear you on the show all the time. Great work by the way, I love hearing your reports! Oddly enough, I was actually listening to Sundays show on aliens and ufos. Not too unlikely I suppose, but it made me think of when George says, “Everything happens for a reason." It was hard to not file this report while I was working, I’ve been thinking about this thing all day long. Also, thanks for taking the time to put together such a great database of reports. So in terms of distance, beginning to end : If I were to lay on my back and hold my arms straight up to the sky and measure the angle of my arms, they would be 90 degrees or a right angle. Now that distance that was visible was almost directly over me (it was actually offset), so 45 degrees left from straight up to 45 degrees right of straight up. Not sure if this makes total sense, I tried to find a website with details of how to explain the arc and other details in astronomical terms. It was also almost travelling perfectly east to west, but I estimated that was also off by a few degrees when looking at Google Maps. I’d say it was slightly SE to NW, but almost true West… again not sure how to best explain it. I did have one thought I forgot to add to my ‘For what it’s worth section’. It doesn’t have to get appended to the report, but I thought you might find this interesting. This morning I told a coworker you never know what this thing could have been, an alien craft or a high tech military craft, one that’s probably headed to North Korea. Five minutes later I thought to myself… 'why would it have lights on the bottom of it then!’ Anyhow, food for thought I suppose. Thanks again, NUFORC Not: We spoke with the witness via telephone, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-mided and sincere. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
August 2, 2014 · 11:34 PM · CIRCLE
Superior, CO
A bright red ball of light appeared to float across the sky from East to West. The light traveled very slowly for a few minutes then traveled at a very quick rate of speed, in approx. the same altitude and direction. It then flashed twice and jetted upward disappearing at a very high altitude. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 23, 2003 · 4:56 AM · TRIANGLE
Superior, CO
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February 19, 2000 · 1:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Superior, CO
While traveling South on McCaslin Blvd. my son and I observed a shiny object in the sky at about 30 degrees above the horizon. It seem