Circle over Golden, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We saw a bright large white light in the sky that was moving and then disappeared.
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 2006-03-11 → 2006-03-28
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September 7, 2023 · 1:45 PM · OVAL
Golden, CO
The Afternoon: A testimony encouraged by my 1 friend, my dad who is not sure if he believes me but supported me, more importantly, my coworker who was there and was moved and for anyone else that was curious what it was.... On a crisp afternoon, we pulled into a landscape yard to load some dirt for a job. A blue bird day, one could almost see to Wyoming, the air was so clear crisp. Cleanest air I have seen all year. Made me wish I was in the mountains climbing that day. I was working. I noticed an object, unlike anything I have seen before in the sky's. The words expressed from us... 3 men working mid day.... ME.... T.... and the " Load Guy" 1)What ((words deleted)) is that bro! 2) What are you guys looking at, ....yo what... I see that... 3) Yo it seems to be floating....Its so bright from reflection, yet white....very high up, wow! Must be around 10...no 15 thousand feet we are at almost 5800 ft no that must be 16 ..17.... Description- The object was shaped in a parabolic nature and oval in shape. The reflective nature of the white color, and absorbtion of pure white was amazing, and the defined shape on its edges was sharp. (It must be a high flying paraglider, I thought?) I told my co worker to observe and it was clear that this was an object, not a cloud. An employee from the company working the front loader, who we were patrons of came out to view the object after our curiosity. We all started taking pictures and discussing what the object could be? This object was over the frontrange, north of Golden, just south of Boulder. We saw commercial planes going underneath it flying west out of DIA. We also saw a few lear jets, most likely on approach from the west to land at centennial airport... Citation jet size planes under the object. (This is how I judged its altitude and size at the time) We were curious if others saw the object. We submit our evidence to add to our reaserch to explain this, understand and identify the object . It hovered at approximately 16,000 ft to 20,000 feet for our observed 30 minutes. Size was judged around the size of a large Prevost bus a bit larger.... Some sparse clouds were observed in area but not around object. Object did not move or change with cloud formation. (Again, it was clear that object was not translucent or hazy, but an ultra white material shape with unwavering parabolic shape. (As we saw the object in almost perfect viewing conditions, its form was an obvious solid object, however the altitude obscured details.) Object did rotate 20 degrees 2 times in 20 minutes then returning to original position. Stoic in its location and azimuth in atmosphere. After having to go about my day, we lost track of object. I had to get back to work! Right... Object was unobserved 5 min later... Object Must have been paraglider???? But all white? At 17000 ft? Every paraglider here has some color on sail around here. Weather balloon? Released by CU? In the track of the busiest airspace in the country? It's my duty to report this for avaiton safety and to also answer our curiosity! In its brilliant white form, we will be in awe by its beauty and wonder and will remember our unwavering curiosity to an object that 3 men, just loading a truck full of dirt saw in the atmosphere that afternoon. Hoping someone else can add to our observation, with evidence as we are both inquisitive but skeptical.
December 9, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CHEVRON
Golden, CO
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?
February 7, 2020 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Golden, CO
Green fireball went across the sky and turned orange, then disappeared. It was too large to be a comet, about the size of 5+ airplanes.
December 2, 2017 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Golden, CO
We drove from Boulder to Lookout Mountain. We arrived at our spot at 39°43'51.9"N 105°14'28.4"W. (Facing West) We sat there listening to music for a couple hours, when all of the sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw a white/blue light hovering between two trees (it was not the reflection of car headlights, because those reflections always followed the same horizontal pattern, when I looked at the light it was just hovering there.) I looked to see what this light was that caught my eye, as did the person sitting next to me. Together we saw an orb. It looked to be about 100 feet from the vehicle. As soon as we looked at it, it zipped straight down behind the hill. We didn't see it again.
May 22, 2017 · 11:18 PM · LIGHT
Golden, CO
there were two orange lights coming from over Lookout Mountain antennas. They made no sounds, they moved towards us then stopped then moved together then one slowly moved up the other down and then disappeared there was no cloud cover for them to disappear in.
March 27, 2017 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Golden, CO
I stepped out onto my front porch and looked into the northeast sky. I noticed what looked like a blue/purple orb flying in a T shaped pattern. It flew very slowly, and very directly. When it changed direction, it did so immediately. When it first caught my eye around 1am, it was moving to the left, then headed down. Headed back up, then moved left again. Stopped for a brief minute, and when it did, it became a semi-solid/pulsating randomly white light. When it began moving again to the right, it became the blue/purple orb it had been when it first caught my eye. After moving for a brief moment it stopped, changed to a white light again, and this is where it sat for a solid 20mins. Then, out of nowhere, it became the blue/purple orb once again, this time moving straight up for a split second, moving significantly faster, and then it was gone. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD