Triangle over Highlands Ranch, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Large, silent, slow, triangular UFO with 6 bright white lights traveling approximately 4 stories off the ground near Denver...06:30
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 2008-12-16 → 2009-01-02
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February 8, 2022 · 5:35 PM · CYLINDER
Highlands Ranch, CO
We were on our upper deck and just noticed the black object with what looked like a black jet stream appear. It moved super slowly (like falling) nothing like the meteors we see from our view and it had a strange shape. Possibly a satellite or piece of spacecraft? But why so slow? Please zoom in to see the object. One is it right after we saw it and then before it went behind the clouds
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Highlands Ranch, CO
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. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
October 4, 2021 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Highlands Ranch, CO
I am a chemical engineer and an executive at a major manufacturing company. I was outside laying on the trampoline looking at the sky with my kids. Straight above us, at about the same altitude as an airplane might be, or higher, I noticed a bright object. It was evening so there was still plenty of daylight, so the light we saw was a reflection from a metal object. At first I thought it was a plane, but it wasn't moving. It was just motionless, and we watched it for at least a minute. I got out my phone and started recording but by then it was gone. Also, you can usually see the shape of an airplane, and make out the fuselage and wings. This object seemed to be round.
November 23, 2019 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Highlands Ranch, CO
My husband was driving eastbound on C470 and I was in the passenger seat. We were nearing Quebec in Highlands Ranch when a bright, solid bluish-white light dropped out of the cloudless night sky above us, seemingly within a couple thousand feet off the ground. It zipped southward, arced downwardly west, then just blinked out. It was much too fast and bright for a plane or helicopter, turned too sharply, and defied all logic of nearby light and traffic patterns. We're both educated 50+ adults and have years of plane & shooting-star spotting experience and we've never seen anything like this.
November 23, 2019 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Highlands Ranch, CO
On the morning of Saturday, November 23rd at 5:30 am I went out on my 2nd floor balcony wearing only my pant bottoms to smoke a cigar. I’m telling you this to help show you the timeline of what I saw. As I stood there and looked up at the night sky, I watched a light come from north to south. It took about 1 minute for it to move north from about 2 o’clock south in the sky to about 12 o ’clock straight above. Being out there only a minute with just my pants I was getting cold and ran in quick to get a shirt. On my way in I noticed another light coming from the same direction and hurried and got a shirt on and went back out, taking less than a minute to get back out. Standing out in my shirt, I noticed 2 additional lights following the same path. Still cold, I stepped inside to grab my coat. This time coming out about 30 seconds later, I looked up and saw 3 lights in line with each other about 1 o’clock in the sky, coming much faster in the same direction from south to north. I continued to watch and more lights continued to move across the sky in increasing numbers, grouped together in lines, not clusters, moving from south to north. About 5:15 am, a small prop plane flew underneath the lights moving west to east. I kept counting the lights as they continued to appear, and lost count after 75. I estimate that I viewed a little over 200 lights total, however due to the horizon getting brighter, I believe there may have been more, just not visible any longer. One last thing I’d like to mention, is from the point of start of 5:30 am, to the point it ended at 6:00 am, looking southward, I noticed that the lights started at an 11 o’clock angle, still facing south everything ended at a 2 o’clock angle. I would like to receive an explanation of these lights if possible. If I were to give it a basic explanation, I would say it looked like continuous strings of lights moving across the sky. Thank you for your time and attention to this.
September 14, 2018 · 8:56 PM · OTHER
Highlands Ranch, CO
Had the same pattern of travel North up Quebec to I-470 then south across Lone Tree to Highlands Ranch. Would travel consistent moderate speed. Then the double white solid lights on each end with red blinking light. Thought it was a drone, but it traveled up to the sky too far upward and then would drop down and freeze in place and change direction. Always consistent with speed, it stopped when I stopped in my car, I believed it was following me. The object waited for me at one point at a friend's home, and as I came out of the house an hour after I saw the object it then passed right above me again near the south of Highlands Ranch open space field. It flew away, and then went back up north past I-470 and then back over to where I lived in Lone Tree.