A UFO was spotted above a concert venue in Colorado, a witness has reported.
Unidentified flying objects have long captured imaginations across the country, with the U.S. government reportedly receiving dozens of sighting reports each month as of last year.
On June 5, an unnamed employee of the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison said they saw a "large disc shaped craft" above the venue. The employee said the aircraft "hovered silently and then disappeared into thin air," according to a report submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center, a nonprofit that documents alleged sightings of UFOs and alien contacts.
"I was working at Red Rocks Amphitheater last night when one of our coworkers suddenly said to us, 'Hey, what is that over there? It looks like a spaceship,'" the employee said in the report.
"We all turned to look in the direction he was pointing and sure enough, there was a UFO hovering about a half a mile to a mile north of red rocks," they continued. "A dozen of us saw it. We all kept asking each other, 'Are you seeing this too?' It was a resounding 'yes' from everyone in the group."
The employee said the sighting lasted about 30 seconds and described the UFO as having three levels of windows, almost like a "really long 3 story office building." They also said that as soon as they noticed the floating craft, it tipped at an angle, began moving away and soon became invisible.
"This was not a plane. It wasn't a satellite, a drone, or anything like that. There was no mistaking what this was: We all saw a giant disc shaped craft hovering a few hundred feet above the ground with three rows of windows and lights. Then we all saw it fade into nothing as soon as it knew it was being watched. There were a dozen other people who saw it with me."
In response to questions about the alleged sighting, a spokesperson for Red Rocks told Newsweek in an emailed statement: "We see amazing, wondrous and mysterious things at Red Rocks almost every night of the year. We welcome our fans from all over the world, and apparently other worlds, and are delighted that Red Rocks has a reputation that is intergalactic."
The National UFO Reporting Center has processed more than 170,000 reports since its founding in 1974, the company's website said.
The subject of UFO sightings has generated even more public interest than usual since 2022, when the government established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to investigate reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
A major congressional hearing in July 2023 further fueled the intrigue, as one witness alleged that the government had concealed research into the sightings, which Pentagon officials denied.
A Pentagon report from March said U.S. government investigations had found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology and that most sightings were misidentified ordinary objects.
Correction on 07/05/24, 9:46 a.m. ET: The article headline was changed to show that the UFO was reported over the concert venue.
Update on 07/08/24, 11:30 a.m. ET: The article was updated with a comment from Red Rocks.
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