Flash over Mead/Johnstown, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Traveling south bound on CR 13 near intersection of CR 36 in Weld County. My wife was driving and I was front seat passenger. Our adult daughter was in backseat with toddler granddaughter. We noticed an extremely bright light directly parallel to us to the east. It was around 1/2 mile away and approximately 500-1000’ ft above ground. The lights had a strobe type effect because of the brightness and were traveling northbound around 1/4 mile per second. There were a total of 4 lights/clicks. Anyone up around 11:30-11:40PM on Saturday night would not have missed this. Have not ever experienced anything like this and we all three looked at each other wondering what we just witnessed.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178192). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-07-19 → 2023-08-05