CaseFireball2019
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Orange orb, bright like flickering fire and hovering.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-01-09
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 35 seconds
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2019-032f69
Wave
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 235 documented reports from Salt Lake City, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Utah logged 81 sightings in 2019.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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