NUFORC Sighting 171461

Occurred: 2022-08-28 09:40 Local
Reported: 2022-08-29 13:18 Pacific
Duration: 58 secs; 20 secs & 5 secs
No of observers: 1

Location: Littleton (Denver metro area), CO, USA
Location details: 3-4 miles W/of downtown Littleton, then northward toward Arvada & along the base of foothills

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

I observed & videod a 'tic tac'-shaped white object moving slowly over the area, then w/in a few minutes saw what may have been a B52

I may be a bit behind the times on UFO news as I don’t typically follow it but I’ve seen UFOs before, one within 10 feet of me a few decades back, and thus direct evidence has proven to me they exist. While reports suggest UFO sightings are on the rise and even the military is reporting them regularly and in droves, however, it remains almost impossible to figure out where to report events like this. There doesn’t appear to be any ‘official’ protocol for it unless one is military. Even the Air Force instructs one to report them to independent, non-military reporting organizations. Local police won’t take a report since it doesn’t involve a ‘crime’. The feds now have an “All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office” but I didn’t find an option to report sightings to them and the names and groups of federal task forces for our country’s defense seems to change like the wind. Streaming groups and organizations like TV shows and such dish out info but don’t seem to accept it. No doubt volume and crazies play into this but there really seems to be a need for an official in-take system for legitimate sightings, a place for the rational public to share information that one would think is of interest to them. Then again, maybe they already know…

Yesterday morning, Sunday, August 28, 2022, I was enjoying a cup of coffee on my downtown old Littleton rooftop patio when a slow-moving object to the West caught my eye beyond and just above the level of the roof of the apartment building across the street. I could immediately see its shape and observed that it appeared to look just like the ‘tic tac’ objects reported in more-recent news affairs. It was white and appeared to be shaped like a ‘Tic Tac’ or propane tank. It was not far away as the foothills are approximately five (5) miles west of my residence. The object appeared to be between me and the foothills, closer to the foothills, and moving along northbound following the edge of the foothills. Lighting was good as the sun was up and shining directly at and on the object. It’s height was low, perhaps at the level a very small plane or local helicopters might travel. It was coming from the south which area includes the USAF Academy, Cheyenne Mountain/NORAD, etc., and its path was close to the same area the USAF sometimes does maneuvers on Sunday mornings or quiet days when it has the skies. What was most unusual to me and made the object stand out, or I may not have otherwise noticed it, was not any unusually rapid speed or directional change at speed, but the slow speed at which it was moving in comparison to its size which appeared to me to be about 30-40 feet long. It left no observable propulsion trail. It was surrounded by an aura. It was silent.

I grabbed my iPhone 12 and took an initial video of 59 seconds which is time noted as 9:40am. I took a second shorter video after moving around a rooftop turret, not seeing it on that side, and then going back to the original side of the turret and realizing I could still see it in the distance, still moving along the foothills, northward, it appeared. It’s speed did not seem to change much although the image seems to jump, including forward, a bit here and there. It’s not possible for me to know if that was a camera anomaly or the object itself.

Within only a few minutes I observed directly straight above my head, possibly coming from Buckely Air Force Base on the east side of Denver because it came from that direction, a pure white plane-shaped object that I thought looked unreal due to its whiteness/luminosity. It almost seemed transparent and it was in a bird-like shape I was unfamiliar with. I immediately videotaped it, as well, but objects on a phone screen are so small one can barely tell if you’re capturing the object or not and I didn’t get much of that. The ‘plane’-shaped object appeared to turn north in my video, perhaps behind the ‘tic tac’ object which by now was perhaps over the Arvada area, I’d guess, but I’m uncertain where the plane object ended up. It disappeared from my eyesight before I could tell where it went.

Planes fly overhead often during the day and much of the night here and from my roof I can observe quite a lot. The sound in the original video I took is not from the observed object but from a commercial plane that had just gone overhead of me from SW to NE toward DIA and which sound was fading. I believe the sound in the plane video is also background noise and from a different direction, possibly echoing off of the turret/metal roof. I have excellent hearing and did not discern any noise whatsoever from the direction of either the ‘tic tac’ or the second object, although I was less focused on ‘sound’ when observing the plane-looking object, which seemed higher up in altitude and so farther away, as well.

I right away began reviewing my video images for a closer look. There seemed to be a black area oscillating in the middle of the object and in some still frames the object almost appeared to be two halves with black in the middle. I also performed some image editing on my phone which resulted in interesting pictures, one with quite unusual black background images (possibly a phone anomaly?) and one which, once ’noise’ and such was removed, made the ’tic tac’ object appear to be more linear in shape under the outside whiteness, with lights perhaps at the ends or rotating around it, or back and forth such as in Physics’ ’String Theory’. I did not alter the original videos at all and they remain as originally taken. Still images provided are frame shots taken from the video(s).

Both objects seemed to be able to ‘cloak’ but I’m not able to tell if the disappearing and/or blurring/cloaking is a phone camera anomaly, possibly related to focusing?, or actually what the camera saw. It did not seem like it was the camera though, and even when looking at the videos zoomed in you can still see the haze around the area where the object is. Additionally, the ’tic tac’ object later came back into clearer view once it got further away from me. I’m not a camera expert, though, nor do I know the limitations of an iPhone 12 camera. Today I video’d other planes in the same area of the sky in the morning time and those same ‘disappearance from view’ and ‘cloaking’ events did not occur… I have a couple more freeze-frame photo shots I can share but was limited to five uptake images. Please let me know if you cannot open any of the five attachments and I can re-send them via email or something.

I next began searching through online information to determine where and how to report such a sighting. I found nothing other than a local Colorado website accepting submissions and other social media sites discussing same, none of which were ‘official’. I found advertisement of the History Channel’s “Unidentified” show and I’ve seen some shows about Skinwalker Ranch, both of which purport to consist of teams of former ‘official’ personnel so I tried to find ways to contact them but have been unsuccessful. I called my local Littleton Police Department (Officer Oren) who advised me they don’t take reports but he asked for the video so I sent it to him. He verified no other persons had reported the sighting to the Littleton P.D. I looked up the U.S. Air Force information about reporting sightings and found, shockingly, that their official instruction is to report sightings - of UFOs flying immediately over a heavily-populated metropolis such as this Denver metro area of around 3M or more, to an independently, privately-run site called "National UFO Sightings". I called there and spoke with a seasoned gentleman who explained they are rather a UFO ’newsletter’ source for all other news or agencies to pull reports from. He encouraged me to submit a report and the imaging and I plan to do so. I sent a brief notice to two local TV news stations (9 News and Fox News) but no one reached out to me.

Interestingly, and perhaps it’s confirmation of my sighting, I now believe the ‘plane’-looking image which appeared within minutes of my seeing the ’tic tac’ may have been a B52… Out of curiosity, I watched the first episode of “Unidentified” on History last night and at Minute #35 the show reported that the federal government’s ‘Project Blue’ program investigating UFO’s was discontinued/disbanded in or around 1969. At the same time of that statement, a snapshot of pure white under-bellied B52s was shown, assumedly as part of that program and part of the Air Force’s involvement. I took a photo of the TV image and it is strikingly similar to what I saw directly overhead and have video of, shortly after the ’tic tac’ came into my view and had moved along northward. I looked up B52s and found the ’Stratofortress’ and in Unidentified, a former Lockheed Martin ’Skunkworks’ expert showed a photo of a supersonic, unmanned X43A, which is lifted/carried by, yes, B52s. Was it a B52 loaded with an X43A?

Aside from the recent USAF fragment releases, I found very few other online images or sightings of ’tic tac’-type UFOs. To the extent mine is video of what I think it is, mine seems to be a fairly good video with what I had to work with.

In addition to there being a lack of resources for the public to share what may be critical information for the government and/or armed forces for our protection, I find it even more concerning that it seems mainly only military personnel’s experiences are considered ‘valid’. My undergraduate degree at C.U., Boulder, was in Molecular Genetics, essentially, with a minor in Biochemistry. I’m a trained insurance case investigator with a history of special investigations and now I assist corporations with insurance recovery when directors/officers are sued, with securities litigation, etc. I’m a 60s female, a professional. I read Science magazine and other similar scientific literature daily. I’m objective. I have excellent logical deduction skills. And I’d love to know if anyone else might be interested in what I saw and in pushing forward better ways to gather some of this information such that it’s shared two-ways. I suspect the government likely already knows most of it, what with their surveillance and radar and other technology. Otherwise how would the aircraft, if that’s what it was, show up so quickly. But then again - didn’t they discontinue that program way back? Or did they…?











Posted 2022-09-09

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