CaseChanging2017
Utah (above; in flight), UT, USA
Dark metallic almond shaped aircraft changed shape
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-10
- Where
- Utah (above; in flight), UT, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.984, -90.488 · fallback
- Slug
- changing-over-utah-above-in-flight-ut-2017-5d88ed
Wave
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
- Utah (above; in flight), UT shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Utah in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.