Bountiful, UT, USA
At around 22:00. I was out jogging and noticed a bright orange fireball type of object flying pretty slowly across the sky. It seemed l
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-25
- Where
- Bountiful, UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.889, -111.881 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bountiful-ut-2015-c45b90
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
- Bountiful, UT shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 78 reports came from Utah in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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