CaseCircle2009

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

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  • 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
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…

Local cluster

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 days

Report

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