Salt Lake City, UT, USA
I saw two balls of whitish-yellow light in the southern sky of SLC, UT traveling W to E. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-07-27
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2016-fdaf41
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Salt Lake City, UT reports filed in July 2016.
In context
- Salt Lake City, UT shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Utah in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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