CaseFlash2013

Riverdale, UT, USA

Reddish/orange flash of light.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (30 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-24
Where
Riverdale, UT, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
41.177, -112.004 · exact
Slug
flash-over-riverdale-ut-2013-1350b9
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…

In context

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Riverdale, UT.
  • This case is one of 94 Utah reports filed in 2013.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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