UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

West Valley City, UT, USA

My husband and I were sitting on the front porch talking and I turned my head just to look up at the sky. At that moment a cluster of w

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-07-27
Where
West Valley City, UT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
40.692, -112.001 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-west-valley-city-ut-2016-658a7c
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…

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In context

  • One of 26 documented reports from West Valley City, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 92 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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