Sunday morning started normal enough for Brooke Williams, manager of the Howling Cow Cafe in Bellvue.
She walked around the property’s tall water feature and pond while admiring the view of the foothills northwest of Fort Collins with the ever-present scent of dairy cattle and cotton from cottonwood trees floating on the gentle summer breeze.
She noticed an object atop an adjacent hill but didn’t think much about it.
She opened the cafe around 9 a.m. and the quiet of the morning quickly changed when the day’s first customers rushed in with an odd order.
“A woman and her husband came in and she was very excited,” Williams told the Coloradoan outside of the cafe Monday. “She was like, ‘where is the alien structure?’ I looked at her, like, ‘what are you talking about?'”
The woman showed Williams photos and said the sighting was blowing up on social media.
“At first, I told her I didn’t know where it was, then it clicked in my head that’s what I saw that morning.”
Williams walked back outside to make sure what she saw matched the photos the woman showed her and told her she had a match.
“She comes running outside and was very excited and said, ‘It’s there,”’ Williams said.
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