2009-06-20 - Boulder, CO - Light

Large round, fiery looking light flying slowly from south to north over Boulder, Colorado at 21:17 MST 06-20-09.

There were four of us were sitting in a hot tub enjoying the late evening of June 20, 2009 when we all noticed a very bright round light moving slowly from south to north over southern Boulder, Colorado (roughly 21:17 pm). The light looked like it was coming from something burning. It had a red-orange color and was not blinking or fading. It appeared to be 20-30,000 feet high and was flying slowly. It made a couple of small turns to the left and right, but mainly followed a path from south to north. At one point it stopped moving and remained stationary for a minute or so. It then appeared to fly straight vertically fairly rapidly and the large round fiery looking light grew smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared completely. The entire viewing time was three to five minutes in length.

There was not a tail of flames, just a large round light with the color of something burning. If it was 20-30,000 feet up, the size of the object would have been very large (many hundreds of feet in diameter if not 1,000’). It may have been closer to the ground though since all we could see was a large light, definitely not a point source. Also, at no point could we see any other object than the light.