CaseCircle2016

Brian Head, UT, USA

Round, white object that moved quickly and turned around and then seemed not to be moving.

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 (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-02-06
Where
Brian Head, UT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
<5 minutes
Geo
37.693, -112.851 · exact
Slug
circle-over-brian-head-ut-2016-0a3aba
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

  • Brian Head, UT has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 92 reports from Utah.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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