Sphere over Fort Collins (West of), CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On the evening of July 15, My friend and I were camping in a remote area about 50 miles west of fort collins, Colorado. Around 10:30 PM, as we were stargazing through the clear sky, we witnessed two dim objects resembling distant stars traveling parallel to each other northwards. They seemed to be outside our atmosphere, as they did not shoot across the sky, rather they just slowly glided. After a few seconds of traveling side by side, the bottom object began to veer off downwards in an unpredictable, jagged motion while the top object continued its path northward. After seconds of this, they each became too dim to see. We agreed that we had never seen anything like that before and that it was unexplainable.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157795). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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