SE Colorado sighting May 2023

SE Colorado sighting May 2023
Time: 2PM May 2023

Location: SE Colorado

\*AMA\* I tell this story in person all the time but I have decided to tell it here, because it is a once in a lifetime experience to see a UFO,  and people may want to read it. Maybe they've seen something similar in the same area. I also want to mention that I have 20/10 vision which is better than what is required to be a fighter pilot. I need glasses like a mountain goat needs climbing protection.

\*A Note On ETs\* During my education I made constant use of the scientific method and still take it seriously. Every claim requires evidence. I lean very strongly towards the position that UFOs, the likes of which have been discussed by pilots, congressmen, and radar operators, are secret earth tech. I am open to the possibility of an ET presence, and acknowledge the likelihood that other life exists and may travel the stars, but until solid evidence is provided I just cannot accept it.

Now, in May of 2023 in the early afternoon, I was traveling south on I-25 from Pueblo, Colorado to Santa Fe, New Mexico for a wildland firefighter pack test (physical fitness test) for the upcoming season. South of Pueblo and not far north of Walsenburg, there is a ridge a couple miles to the west (which would be on my right). 

The interstate itself, however, is on flat plains country and there is very minimal traffic because the route essentially moves away from the populated parts of eastern Colorado, farther north. So I was able to keep eyes on the object for long periods of time. I would watch for 10+ seconds at a time and just glance at the road to make sure I wasn't about to hit a pronghorn or something else. 

The ridge climaxes at Greenhorn Mountain, roughly 4,000 feet tall (compared to the surrounding ground). Over halfway between the surrounding the ground and the top of the ridge, between the ridge and I, there was a "ball" of light, as if an object roughly the size of a school bus (spherically) had very bright white lights all over it. It was definitely not on the ridge, it was in the air in front of the ridge. I have heard other people have sightings of craft similar to this and describe them as being "a ball of light that one cannot penetrate with their eyes." There is no way to see the object inside producing the light, it is too bright. Like when you look at a really bright light bulb. You can't see the glass. 

I watched it for minutes. Minutes. It hovered there without moving and I had my eyes on it constantly. I always clarify that there is virtually no change in elevation on this part of the interstate, meaning that my perspective of the craft in regards to its position on the ridge is not changing either. I glanced away for probably the fourth time, and when I looked back it was now, as a rough estimation, about a thousand feet or less ABOVE the ridge. 

There are no towers there with lights that I know of. It was too far above the peak to be on a tower anyways. I watched it, occasionally glancing at the interstate, and after about another minute it was GONE. Completely gone. 

Being early afternoon in mid-late spring, the sun was high meaning that it illuminated the ridge without creating glare or hurting my eyes. Said object did not turn its lights off, I would have been able to see it still. The move above the ridge and the disappearance were both instantaneous. *Instantaneous*. No known craft moves so fast that it can cover thousands of feet vertically, or disappear from plain view completely, in the less than one second that I would take my eyes off it to look at the road.

Do I think it was aliens? Nope. Would I pay good money to know what it looks like and what its propulsion system is? You bet your sweet bippy i would.