Police on Wednesday night confirmed a reported drone sighting over the central part of Evans, but it’s unclear whether the drones were the same kind that have prompted a multi-agency investigation in northeastern Colorado.

A resident reported drones over the Ashcroft Heights subdivision, near 37th Street and 35th Avenue. Two Evans police officers later verified drones, spotting them flying in a crisscross pattern about 7:25 p.m. Wednesday over the South Platte River near 54th Street Road.

Since mid-December, residents have been reporting drones with 6-foot wingspans flying hundreds of feet in the air in grid-like patterns in northeastern Colorado and parts of Nebraska. Law enforcement agencies have not identified any operators, and agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Air Force and the U.S. Army Forces Command have denied having any information about the aircraft.

Sightings matching the mystery drones’ description have been reported to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office on New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day and Monday night in the northeastern part of the county. Greeley police have not received any reports of drone activity.

But a Greeley resident said she saw what might have been drones about 30 minutes later in the west part of the city. While returning home from a grocery store, Jennifer Finch said she saw an object in the sky moving west and took a quick video of it at 7:52 p.m. near the area of U.S. 34 and 71st Avenue. Finch then saw another object moving north and eventually counted six of the objects. The objects had blinking lights, and Finch heard a sound similar to an airplane.

Finch is the director of communications for Weld County, but was not serving in that capacity when speaking to Greeley Tribune for this story.

https://youtu.be/FQir8LvlYus Greeley resident Jennifer Finch took this video of what might have been drones in the west part of the city.

“They were too low and too close together to be planes in my opinion,” Finch wrote in an email.

Evans police said they were too far away to get an idea of the drones’ size and found no operators or chase vehicles that would be used to launch or command the drones.

The local sighting was the same day the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office rescinded a call for people to be on the lookout for a “command vehicle” for the drones.