UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Vernal, UT, USA

Giant bright red light in sky as well as other lights that we say phase out

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-03
Where
Vernal, UT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1.5 minutes
Geo
40.456, -109.529 · exact
Slug
circle-over-vernal-ut-2021-296643
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Vernal, UT shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 33 reports came from Utah in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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