Utah (just off I-70), UT, USA
bright changing light hover and landed behind a mountian. lat 37°49'15.60"N lon 112°43'22.31"W
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-15
- Where
- Utah (just off I-70), UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3min
- Geo
- 40.984, -90.488 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-utah-just-off-i-70-ut-2005-406453
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 1 documented reports from Utah (just off I-70), UT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Utah logged 30 sightings in 2005.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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