Wendover, UT, USA
We were headed on 80east heading east and we saw this very bright flashing light that just sat in the sky
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-05
- Where
- Wendover, UT, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 secs
- Geo
- 40.737, -114.038 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-wendover-ut-2005-afcfae
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
- Wendover, UT shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from Utah in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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