Cone over Salida, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Object 15-20 degrees above horizon. Bright white light with cone of light on bottom. Multiple photos and some vids taken.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #163600). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-05-09 → 2021-05-26
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September 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CIGAR
Salida, CO
String of lights moving west to east at 9 pm mountain time. White lights without change in brightness or color. Appeared to be approximately 20 thousand feet up and moving at approximately 300 miles per hour. No discernable shape and no sound. Entered a small cloud and then completely vanished! Time of event and viewing approximately 4 to 5 minutes. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
February 11, 2021 · 5:51 AM · LIGHT
Salida, CO
At 05:51 I got into my hot tub and when I looked up I saw a string of about 100 bright lights racing across the sky from the northwest to the southeast at about 10 degrees off of vertical. There were no blinking red or white lights. The string was farther east than I could see so I am not sure how many there were total.
January 3, 2021 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Salida, CO
It was a cold and windy night, around 10:00, me and my friends were watching TV. Out of the corner of my eye I see out of the window a giant blob in the sky that looked the size of a planet, but had the blinking properties of a star. The more that I looked at that, the more it became a mystery to my mind. Since it was very windy, we thought that maybe it was a few tree branches making it blink that much, so my friend went outside to see if it was the branches. He comes back and reports that it was not the branches and that it was just like that. He starts speculating that it was something different, such as a drone or a satellite. We already ruled out the option of a plane since it was stagnant in the dark moonless sky. Soon after we ruled out a satellite since satellites are orbiting the Earth, and just like the plane’s reason, it wasn’t moving at all. Even more curiously, it just moved faster than my eyes could see to the right. One minute it was in perfec! t view out of the window, then the next you had to be outside to see it. It was still blinking, and had the same properties as it did before. I don’t know why aliens like cows so much, but I have seen stuff on the cow mutilations that take place around where I live, and to make things scarier, cows were/are on the property. I had never put in much thought to aliens, but after that night I have been a firm believer.
October 12, 2017 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Salida, CO
We took our dog out for his evening stroll and saw a bright light moving rapidly across the sky, flying from the WNW toward the ESE. At first we thought it might be the space station but it was moving very quickly and silently, was in the wrong location and moving in the wrong direction. Then, it disappeared completely. There were no clouds in the sky. We continued walking and then noticed another light, just as bright, just as silent, following in the same path across the sky. We stopped to watch it--and it disappeared at approximately the same place the first one did. Several high altitude jets went by during the time we were out, and we watched them to ensure that we had seen something different. The planes had the traditional flashing lights and sound, so we are certain these lights were not planes.
May 19, 2014 · 10:34 AM · SPHERE
Salida, CO
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June 3, 2013 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
Salida, CO
Orange oval object rapidly moving from north to south until it faded from view.