Triangle over Durango, CO
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The report, as filed
Strange object seen in Colorado sky
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 2012-01-18 → 2012-02-04
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October 30, 2023 · 6:52 PM · CIRCLE
Durango, CO
I left my daughter’s house and saw a glowing, round object in the sky. It didn’t have a defined shape. It was moving from SW to SE in a slightly erratic flight pattern. I knew it wasn’t a plane because it didn’t have any of the blinking lights that planes have and it didn’t have a contrail. I took a photo and then a video, both with my iPhone. I phoned my husband, we live next door, and asked him to come out quickly to look at this object. He agreed that it didn’t appear to be a plane. The object went out of view after a couple minutes due to tree and building obstructions. If you look carefully at the video, you can see that sometimes it moves slightly up and down and then straight. I didn’t look carefully at the still photo until the following day, October 31st. When I enlarged it as much as I could, I was a bit shocked by what I saw. The photo is why I am contacting you. The object has an irregular shape and seems to be emitting its own light causing a glow. There are three “lines “coming down from the shape. It’s just really strange. I showed this to several people and we all agree that it’s certainly not a plane. I would love to know what you think it could be. It appears you would like latitude and longitude. I looked it up for Durango Colorado. Latitude is 37.270500 and longitude is -107.878700 [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
May 8, 2022 · 10:35 AM · OVAL
Durango, CO
I was shooting pictures of the mountains before we got into Silverton, CO. I had my camera (Canon 77D) set to multi shots. So each time i took a picture, i usually got about 8 shots of the same item. I did a quick shot of a mountain range, got 2 photos in sequence. In the very first shot, i got a blurry object. Do not know what it was, did not see it in the view finder. Just thought i would report it in case someone else might have seen something. Don't know what i shot, did not see anything flying in the area.
February 27, 2022 · 1:53 AM · LIGHT
Durango, CO
I felt weird and uneasy, and I started immediately thinking about aliens because we were just talking about aliens at a game night at a friends house. So I was making little mocking alien noises singing the music in my car weird. & ALL of my electronics stopped working in my car, the mechanical portion was working I was still driving, my music stopped working - and my iPhone music disconnected from my car and my phone wasn’t letting me do anything. (I have a screen on my dash for music it started malfunctioning) that lasted for about a minute. It felt really eerie so I drove in silence for a bit since I couldn’t get anything to turn back on. Just as I was about to go from 160 to turn left at the intersection where 160 and 550 meet, I was about to go through the stop light and it shot out in front of me from up in the sky behind my car with an aura and trail lights (no color, just light). It was only for a few seconds but the small light trail behind it was visible and it was moving northeast. It moved fast and kind of maneuvered a little above the buildings, it wasn’t exactly going pin straight. I couldn’t see the whole shape of the object because it was just light, but with the light following it, it looked more like a round teardrop.
March 2, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Durango, CO
I was out and just looked up and thought I saw falling stars at first but they just kept coming and moving in a straight line to the northeast .
July 8, 2019 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Durango, CO
My sighting was on 7-8-2019 at around 10:00 PM on a clear night over United Campground in Durango Colorado, My wife saw this with me, moving from East toward West was a round large glowing object. It had no defined outer perimeter and was as large as if you held a dime coin about 15 foot from you.. It moved across the sky in about 15 seconds at what appeared to be maybe 10,000 ft altitude and there was no sound. Shortly after that an airplane was following it but was not as fast. Then to our amazement a very bright green steady light came across the sky on the same path but faster, That was not the final sighting, Then a bright Blue light came across the sky on the same course. None of these lights had any blinking marker lights except for the chasing airplane, We watch the sky most nights looking at satellites etc, None of this was normal. I am a retired manufacturing Engineer with past connections to NASA. My wife is a working Professional Event Planner. We were on vacation from Austin, Texas.
June 3, 2019 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Durango, CO
I saw this object in the distance and once it got closer I saw no blinking lights and (it) had no sound. I could see that is was sphere shaped and when I whipped out my phone it was going right over my head, and when I zoomed in you can see another circle shape inside of it. It was nor glowing or have a bright light but very distinctive. It was grey in color and when it reached where the roof started I lost it and when I moved to see it it completely disappeared when I moved angles. It was only going about 20 mph if I had to guess from how high it was. [video was taken] (MUFON CMS Report)