Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Object seemingly on fire hovering over salt lake airport.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-14
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2014-3c1d00
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…
Local cluster
February 2014 was a busy month for Salt Lake City, UT: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in Salt Lake City, UT.
- This case is one of 79 Utah reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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