UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Ophir Mountain, UT, USA

On or about October1997 at approximately 12 a.m. in the morning we were hunting in an area that we always go it's in the town of ophir

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-30
Where
Ophir Mountain, UT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.656, -124.138 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-ophir-mountain-ut-1997-0fd750
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Ophir Mountain, UT has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 23 reports from Utah.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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