UFOMYST
CaseChanging2012

West Valley City, UT, USA

Black object hovering and changing shape...suddenly vanished.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-24
Where
West Valley City, UT, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.692, -112.001 · exact
Slug
changing-over-west-valley-city-ut-2012-5fed19
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in West Valley City, UT.
  • This case is one of 112 Utah reports filed in 2012.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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