CaseCigar2011

Idaho/Utah border, UT, USA

OBJECT SEEN BY PASSEGER ON COMMERCIAL FLIGHT OVER IDAHO/UTAH BORDER

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-31
Where
Idaho/Utah border, UT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
42.862, -77.556 · fallback
Slug
cigar-over-idaho-utah-border-ut-2011-148eb9
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Idaho/Utah border, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 57 sightings in 2011.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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