1987-07-01 - Lost Park, CO - Sphere

Bright red spheres with slow random movements in the same area of the sky reoccurring numerous evenings.

I have posted two other reports that happened in the summers before the experiences described here. These happened in the mid to late 1980’s in Lost Park near Jefferson Colorado. We camped in the area for quite a few years on a regular basis. We moved our campsite to the Lost Park area from the Tarryall reservoir area. Lost park is about 10 miles or so from the reservoir. We found a road that went up and around to the top of a small hill and were camping there for 5 or 6 weekends in a row. The first time we saw them a friend of mine was looking at what we thought was a campfire on a ridge about 1\2 of a mile away with my telescope. The telescope was a 900 power at maximum magnification. As soon as he got the scope focused in on the campfire he said the fire went out! Then about a minute later the sphere that we thought was the fire went up in the sky! As we watched it in awe it went up and joined two other lights. The next several weekends as soon as it got dark there were three UFO’S in the same general place in the sky. They would move slowly around in the same area sometimes close to each other sometimes further apart. At times one of them would be down low enough to be below us from our vantage point. Their behavior was always the same every time we saw them (i.e.: slow and deliberate and random). They were bright red spheres and always three of them. This occurred for 5 or 6 weekends both Friday and Saturday nights, enough that we got tired of watching them. They were about 1/4 to 1/2 mile away (approx). We were crossing a forest service sign to go up to the hilltop. It was the kind they put right in the middle of the road and it was plastic so you could just drive over it and it would spring back up when it came out from under your vehicle. The last time we went there the forest service had put a permanent sign up that you couldn’t just drive over. So we moved our camp to where we thought we would be right under the objects but we never saw them again. I have camped in the area for years and never seen the three UFO’S again. These trips were usually at least 4 people sometimes more. Depending on who went as we went in a group of close friends. These reports are all old because we didn’t know who to report them to and we didn’t think the police or forest service would do anything about it or even believe us. Thank you.