Riverton, UT, USA
At midnight I observed a bright multi-colored pulsa I called a friend who lives in Orem, Utah which is 20 miles south of Riverton. He
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 3900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-21
- Where
- Riverton, UT, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 Hr. 5 min.
- Geo
- 40.522, -111.939 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-riverton-ut-2009-7565e4
Part of a wave
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U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Riverton, UT reports filed in March 2009.
In context
- Riverton, UT shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from Utah in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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