Cedar Valley, UT, USA
There was a very, large object which was multi-colored, low in the sky, ((NUFORC Note: Space debris re-entering atmosphere. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-07-27
- Where
- Cedar Valley, UT, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.333, -112.081 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-cedar-valley-ut-2016-318784
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Cedar Valley, UT.
- This case is one of 92 Utah reports filed in 2016.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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