Circle over Mead/Thornton (between; on I-25), CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A blue beam of light shining down toward Earth from an aircraft about two or three miles in the sky above. The blue beam then widened into a white light before the craft shot off across the sky like a bullet and then disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131895). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-20 → 2017-01-06