UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Midvale, UT, USA

Rainbow of colors disrupts the Utah night sky.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-11
Where
Midvale, UT, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
40.611, -111.900 · exact
Slug
flash-over-midvale-ut-2017-e7cb02
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Midvale, UT has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 72 reports from Utah.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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