Disk over Canon City, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
lingering orange lights spotted in sky over Canon City, CO near Prison Facilities
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 2008-01-12 → 2008-01-29
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July 11, 2022 · 7:30 PM · CROSS
Canon City, CO
Red and green flashing lights. Hovered for a few moments then took off to the left. Came back about 30 seconds later. Went straight up then straight down. Then took its original location and hovered again. Eventually it took off to the right. It seemed to be watching the fireworks.
March 10, 2021 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Canon City, CO
I'm a 66 year old Colorado Springs resident for 30 years plus. My friend from Denver was driving. We took a day trip down to see the Royal Gorge and then on to Salida and back. As we left Canon City the stars are always bright in that desert area. My friend said "What is that green light ahead" on the right side of the highway? I said it was probably that one flashy star that I can't name. He said "No. It's moving this way" as it was running parallel to the highway. I said ,"PULL OVER". I thought my jaw would fall off. He had to continue a few feet as the shoulder was narrow. Then a driveway allowed him to jump out with me. My friend didn't have the view I had as he not only was driving and wears glasses. I could clearly see a perfect triangle of three what appeared to be dimly lit discs which were not separate, but part of one craft. No clue what the vehicle itself looked like. These soft green discs seemed more like what propelled it than marker lights seen on aircraft. It banked slightly left and the discs became obvious. It took approximately 15-20 seconds to pass by and head west from view.
December 24, 2020 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
Canon City, CO
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.
August 2, 2020 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Canon City, CO
We noticed it and at first we thought it was a balloon. There was no movement. We watched it over an hour. It almost looked like a fire ball with the naked eye. We looked through binoculars and realized there was an individual light rotating around it. There was no sound. It became dusk when we saw it getting brighter. Then 3 huge jets flew around it super fast like they were in a hurry. All of their jet stream came together and turned into a huge cloud and covered over this UFO. Then after the cloud left ironically it disappeared. After we watched it over an hour!! Felt like we were in a movie watching a government cover up.
January 14, 2020 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Canon City, CO
Never ending line of starlike lights-uniformly spaced-moving from southwest sky to the northeast very high altitude then lead one slowly disappearing and others in line following suite..dissapearing one at a time as well then adding on to end of line...Finally all dissappearing..the to tthe west sky only 5 forming a triangular shape..Appearing the dissappearing.
July 28, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Canon City, CO
From where we were we could make out some very sharp "s" like, as well as, linear movements from the craft silently hovering its way across the horizon. It also appeared that the lights on the craft were focused on certain areas. We could see the lights shift direction before slowly moving its way out of sight; as if scanning.