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Summary: When I lived in Colorado I spent many MANY nights out until daybreak as a teen. We’d street race, hike, smoke weed, or just all hang out in the vast nearby wilderness that surrounded Colorado Springs. One night (I’m thinking possibly summer or fall of 2015) a group of us were sitting at the main lookout at Garden of the Gods (prior to them locking the park at night which happened years after I left). It was probably 3am. We were all looking up pointing out constellations. I was facing Cheyenne Mountain looking straight up (infamous for housing NORAD) when and incredibly bright green light caught my attention lower down than where I was looking. It came out of nowhere racing towards the mountain going faster that I’d expect a plane or helicopter to be moving. I’d guess it was maybe 400 yards in diameter, or large enough to see the shape clearly about 16 miles away. It was oval, not a perfect sphere but not a “tic-tac” or cigar. It was metallic, but not shiny. It wasn’t rough like I’d expect a large meteor to be, but it had texture to it. I said “oh shit” and everyone turned to look, one of my friends who was facing me said he could literally see the green glow on my face, so he knew I wasn’t making it up, but instead of impacting the mountain or going behind it, it literally disappeared. Just poof, gone. It got so close to Cheyenne Mountain it lit up the side like it was daytime, with the slightly greenish hue people say they see before tornadoes. And then darkness with the green still burned into my retina. I spent weeks trying to track it down on anyone’s dashcam or security camera videos (like you see when large meteors crash) but there wasn’t a single mention of a meteor being anywhere in the United States at that time, much less Colorado. This spurred a stupid obsession with NORAD where I got caught twice and removed from the premises (but that’s a story for another time 😂) and began my interest in UFOs. Prior to that it wasn’t really something I thought about but the texture and movement of this … whatever it was… just fascinated me. There was a long tail like you’d expect on a meteor but the energy seemed to surround the object on all sides, not just trailing behind. I always wondered if it was some new military technology being tested or it was really extraterrestrial in nature and it malfunctioned or crashed but there was no impact and it almost seemed like it went through the mountain or was swallowed up. Could’ve very well have been just a weird meteor but I haven’t talked about this in years!!!