NUFORC Sighting 168251

Occurred: 2021-10-12 19:12 Local
Reported: 2022-05-19 13:38 Pacific
Duration: Approximately 3 min total
No of observers: 1

Location: Arvada, CO, USA
Location details: W. 58th Pl.

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Wedge shaped, massive, silent and extremely fast aircraft

Hello,
I almost never talk about this, and I hope I don't sound like a crackpot.

A little background: I'm an incredibly average person; 50, a mom, decently educated, and very much not into UFOs. I respect others' beliefs, I have my own, but practically speaking, I like facts, logic, and things that make sense. My basic perspective is that statistically it's almost certain something is or was out there somewhere in this vast universe, but if these beings are smart enough to come all this way, they're smart enough to avoid messy humans. I don't give it much thought beyond that.

What happened:
Last October, I was out for a walk with my cat. He has a stroller with a mesh cover and it's nice for him to get out. At that moment, I had one earbud in, as I had been listening to music on the SiriusXM app. (I left one out for safety reasons.) It was 7:12 pm.

When we go for walks, I like to look at this app called Flight Radar to identify the planes going over and nearby. It's just a fun and interesting app, and I use it almost every walk - you just look up for plane lights, click the corresponding moving dot on the app, and you can see that plane's fight path and info about the aircraft. So as is typical, we stopped, I looked up, and detected motion - but not the bright headlight on a regular plane.

Instead, it was something moving east to west. I saw faint lights - which suggested that it was super high up - and they were perfectly spaced along what appeared to be the front edge of a triangular or wedge shaped aircraft. I didn't count them, but it looked like six on each side with one in the middle, plus a cluster of three or four extra just off the left end that were grouped together closely - they seemed to be separate things, like tugboats, keeping pace. It was definitely a solid object, as it blocked out the sky as it passed. My first thought was that it was one of those neat stealth bombers. I've never seen one in real life and was excited for a millisecond - and then had a disturbing realization.

If the faintness of the lights indicated high altitude, this thing must have been miles across. The other baffling element was the speed. It was covering ground faster than anything I've ever seen. I tried to open my camera app and within seconds it had passed over me and banked north in the general direction of western Wyoming. I could still see the light pattern from the back, as if it was on an incline.

The whole time, it made absolutely no sound, so that was odd too. I did a test shortly after with both earphones in and could still hear a regular aircraft going over, even with music at my typical volume.

When I couldn't get the camera app going fast enough, I checked Flight Radar, which tracks aircraft in real time. There was nothing on the radar that it could have been, though it was so fast I might have missed it. I don't think so, but it's possible.

If it matters at all, my cat did not react oddly and I have no reason to think he even noticed it.

Of course, just because I don't know what something is doesn't mean no one does. UFO is never going to be my first assumption and frankly I wouldn't want to see one. Let's leave that to the movies, please.

So I looked it up online, and to my relief, found info about strings of satellites. I felt a little silly and tried to convince myself that must have been it. But it wasn't. I haven't found one satellite string photo that even sort of matches. The spacing of these lights was too exact, the pointed configuration was extremely distinct, and obviously satellite strings don't block out a wedge shape of whatever is behind them. It was unequivocally lights along the edge of an aircraft. Who has that kind of technology? No idea. Hopefully the US, Mexico or Canada and I'm just blissfully uninformed.

The closest description I found online was of an event in Arizona, but in that case I think the aircraft just sat there in the sky over Phoenix. This is when I start feeling like I'm in an episode of a ridiculous TV show and it's uncomfortable and I just want to stop thinking about it. I've done pretty well with that approach so far, but it does bother me wondering what it was

I saw on CNN that the government is starting to take these things more seriously now, and it feels almost like a responsibility to let someone know. So… there it is. I hope this report is somehow useful. If you share this with any other researchers, please do not use my name as I do not want to call attention to myself in any way. Thank you for your time.

Posted 2022-06-22