Vernal, UT, USA
Bright object observed over Dry Fork Canyon, UT. ((NUFORC Note: Object appears to us to be consistent with a "twinkling" star. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-08-31
- Where
- Vernal, UT, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.456, -109.529 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-vernal-ut-2019-3d33c1
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
- One of 18 documented reports from Vernal, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Utah logged 81 sightings in 2019.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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