Pagosa Springs, Colorado: Deputy sees orange-gold light swell to moon size and vanish
At 6:29 a.m. on December 6, 1979, an Archuleta County deputy sheriff driving west on US Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, saw an orange-gold light in the western sky grow to the size of a fuzzy full moon within 2–3 seconds and vanish without a sound.
Background
At 6:29 a.m. an Archuleta County deputy sheriff was driving west on US Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs when he saw an orange-gold light in the western sky. Within 2–3 seconds it grew to the size of a fuzzy full moon. Holding its position, it vanished without a sound. Eberhart cites the International UFO Reporter (January 1980). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.