Oval over Arvada, CO
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The report, as filed
Daylight disc , Jeffco Colorado , 2001
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November 1, 2023 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Arvada, CO
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October 15, 2023 · 9:01 PM · TRIANGLE
Arvada, CO
Saw a black triangle shaped object that flew from north to south right overhead , three dim lights , no sound and moved fast.Just saw it for maybe 4 seconds, A minute or so after saw what appeared to be some type of "sparkle light" west of where the black triangle flew by.
September 4, 2023 · 6:46 PM · SPHERE
Arvada, CO
After seeing a different black sphere-shaped UFO moving North 8 days prior, I made it a priority to start walking with my phone. Sure enough, 8 days later I looked up and spotted a fast East-moving black sphere that I could not identify. Clearly not a drone, plane, helicopter. Object flashed fully red a few times, before disappearing into the distance. No clue what it couldve been. This one was clearly spherical, whereas the one 8 days prior seemed mostly spherical, but with additional detail around the sphere. Video does not show the red flashes, but to my naked eye it was clearly doing so.
May 5, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Arvada, CO
Friday night at 9:25 I was driving south on CO-93, just west of Leyden Rock and south of Coal Creek Canyon Rd, when I saw one bright flying object, orb-ish and seemingly tapered at both ends, flying east to west at a low altitude, easily in commercial airspace below the clouds. I pulled up FlightAware immediately and saw no commercial aircraft in the vicinity. The object was very bright and relatively large, easily distinguishable from stars or satellites. I had it in my sight for less than 30 seconds as I lost sight after it flew over the nearby foothills.
October 30, 2022 · 10:35 PM · OVAL
Arvada, CO
At 1035 on 10/30/2022 my Wife was outside walking our Dog in our backyard and called to me that there is "something strange in the sky, a UFO". I ran outside and observed a bright oval shaped shiny object very high in the Western sky. I retrieved my Binoculars and observed either a large array of balloons or something that I had not seen before. This was definetly not a known aircraft or drone. The object moved from W to E rather slowly, but again, not as previously viewed Mylar balloons in the sky in the past. Perhaps, a weather balloon. Strange and unknown to us.
October 12, 2021 · 7:12 PM · TRIANGLE
Arvada, CO
Hello, I almost never talk about this, and I hope I don't sound like a crackpot. A little background: I'm an incredibly average person; 50, a mom, decently educated, and very much not into UFOs. I respect others' beliefs, I have my own, but practically speaking, I like facts, logic, and things that make sense. My basic perspective is that statistically it's almost certain something is or was out there somewhere in this vast universe, but if these beings are smart enough to come all this way, they're smart enough to avoid messy humans. I don't give it much thought beyond that. What happened: Last October, I was out for a walk with my cat. He has a stroller with a mesh cover and it's nice for him to get out. At that moment, I had one earbud in, as I had been listening to music on the SiriusXM app. (I left one out for safety reasons.) It was 7:12 pm. When we go for walks, I like to look at this app called Flight Radar to identify the planes going over and nearby. It's just a fun and interesting app, and I use it almost every walk - you just look up for plane lights, click the corresponding moving dot on the app, and you can see that plane's fight path and info about the aircraft. So as is typical, we stopped, I looked up, and detected motion - but not the bright headlight on a regular plane. Instead, it was something moving east to west. I saw faint lights - which suggested that it was super high up - and they were perfectly spaced along what appeared to be the front edge of a triangular or wedge shaped aircraft. I didn't count them, but it looked like six on each side with one in the middle, plus a cluster of three or four extra just off the left end that were grouped together closely - they seemed to be separate things, like tugboats, keeping pace. It was definitely a solid object, as it blocked out the sky as it passed. My first thought was that it was one of those neat stealth bombers. I've never seen one in real life and was excited for a millisecond - and then had a disturbing realization. If the faintness of the lights indicated high altitude, this thing must have been miles across. The other baffling element was the speed. It was covering ground faster than anything I've ever seen. I tried to open my camera app and within seconds it had passed over me and banked north in the general direction of western Wyoming. I could still see the light pattern from the back, as if it was on an incline. The whole time, it made absolutely no sound, so that was odd too. I did a test shortly after with both earphones in and could still hear a regular aircraft going over, even with music at my typical volume. When I couldn't get the camera app going fast enough, I checked Flight Radar, which tracks aircraft in real time. There was nothing on the radar that it could have been, though it was so fast I might have missed it. I don't think so, but it's possible. If it matters at all, my cat did not react oddly and I have no reason to think he even noticed it. Of course, just because I don't know what something is doesn't mean no one does. UFO is never going to be my first assumption and frankly I wouldn't want to see one. Let's leave that to the movies, please. So I looked it up online, and to my relief, found info about strings of satellites. I felt a little silly and tried to convince myself that must have been it. But it wasn't. I haven't found one satellite string photo that even sort of matches. The spacing of these lights was too exact, the pointed configuration was extremely distinct, and obviously satellite strings don't block out a wedge shape of whatever is behind them. It was unequivocally lights along the edge of an aircraft. Who has that kind of technology? No idea. Hopefully the US, Mexico or Canada and I'm just blissfully uninformed. The closest description I found online was of an event in Arizona, but in that case I think the aircraft just sat there in the sky over Phoenix. This is when I start feeling like I'm in an episode of a ridiculous TV show and it's uncomfortable and I just want to stop thinking about it. I've done pretty well with that approach so far, but it does bother me wondering what it was I saw on CNN that the government is starting to take these things more seriously now, and it feels almost like a responsibility to let someone know. So… there it is. I hope this report is somehow useful. If you share this with any other researchers, please do not use my name as I do not want to call attention to myself in any way. Thank you for your time.