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Serious: My Uncle, a Life-Long Pilot, Finally Shares his 1991 Colorado River UFO Encounter
Witnesses
1 witness
Duration
Unknown
Source material
2
Timeline
2
Source context
Limited context
Interesting, but still missing stronger corroboration or harder source material.
Source provenance
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Live sighting record c1f3a518-508d-4e1f-b228-2766fc1639c7.
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Correlations
Field Intelligence
Moon phase
91% illumination
Waxing gibbous — bright sky
Solar window
Weather
Open-MeteoArea activity
Meteor activity
Context notes
Full/near-full moon (91% illumination)
Quadrantids meteor shower was active at this time
Heavy cloud cover (97%) — limited visibility
Extracted details
Observed facts
Occurred
Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM
Timezone
Mountain Time
Location
Arkansas River, Colorado
Observers
1 witness
Witness account
Narrative
My uncle, now approaching his 80s, is a life-long pilot who also served in the Army as a pilot. He has been reluctant to share this story for over a decade, but he is finally willing to do so. He has reached a point in his retirement where he no longer worries about what others think and feels he has nothing to lose by telling the truth about his experience. The following encounter took place one morning in 1991, in southwestern Colorado, along the Arkansas River. My uncle went fly fishing ea...
Case progression
Timeline
Witnesses place the encounter near Arkansas River, Colorado.
r/aliens carried the report into the source network.
Ledger
Source material
source
Original report
Direct source material from r/aliens.
telemetry
Environmental pass
Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.