State Report
UFO Sightings in Colorado
4,904 sightings on record from 1905 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
4,904
Share of US total
2.29%
Peak year
2016
393 reports
Top shape
Light
892 reports
Years active
118
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-19 | Denver | sphere | 5 minutes | Large object appeared hovering above Sec. of State bldg then opened and released 4 reddish/orange orbs |
| 2023-11-13 | Longmont | formation | 7 min | 6 lights following each other descending in a helical path |
| 2023-11-10 | Denver | orb | Less than 1 minute | Basketball sized ball of light, about the same brightness as a flood light flying low and slow. |
| 2023-11-08 | Wellington | orb | one to two seconds | light appeared/turned on and traveled instantly many miles. not sure if it turned off or disappeared due to distance |
| 2023-11-03 | Colorado Springs | sphere | No more than 10 minutes | Flashing red hot air balloon look-alike |
| 2023-11-01 | Arvada | circle | 3 seconds | 4 circles traveling at an insanely high speed relatively low to the ground. They were traveling together with some space... |
| 2023-11-01 | Sheep mountain | light | @1 minute | Bright light behind fuzzy cloud. |
| 2023-10-30 | Colorado Springs | orb | 10 - 15 minutes | Hazy light in sky blows smoke ring |
| 2023-10-30 | South Fork | light | 5-10min | Saw a very bright light, pushed out halo of light |
| 2023-10-30 | Windsor | orb | 30-60 seconds | Fuzzy Soft White light traveling ESE |
| 2023-10-30 | Durango | circle | 2 minutes | Glowing object in the sky with a slightly erratic flight pattern moving from SW to SE |
| 2023-10-20 | Northglenn | orb | 3-6 minutes | 2 orbs first seen by 2 people then chevron craft seen by 5 people |
| 2023-10-16 | Loveland | orb | 1 minute | Bright orb spotted moving across sky over Loveland, CO |
| 2023-10-15 | Arvada | triangle | 5-7 seconds | Dark Triangle Shaped object three dim white lights on each tip |
| 2023-10-11 | Aurora | light | 1am-330am | Ring Camera detected a person in my back yard when seen video it was a light moving |
| 2023-10-08 | Littleton | oval | 3 minutes | Black object moving south, then north minutes later. |
| 2023-10-07 | Denver | orb | 10-20 mins | My husband and I saw a white orb float across the sky at a steady pace and pretty fast for how far away I the sky it... |
| 2023-10-05 | Parker | cylinder | 7 minutes | It was orange object it was massive, it looked similar to a plane but definitely not a plane, it had a giant sphere in... |
| 2023-10-05 | Colorado Springs 80917 | triangle | 6-7 seconds | Spotted 3 red lights in the shape of triangle |
| 2023-09-30 | Boulder | orb | ~ 5 minutes | May have been drones did not see blinking lights. A max of two lights were seen at a time. The travelsal looked like a... |