La Verkin, UT, USA
My son was on the way home from cedar city he called me @ 10 pm told me to go out and look west. I did, the thing was south of leeds it
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-09
- Where
- La Verkin, UT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.201, -113.270 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-la-verkin-ut-2017-233982
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
- La Verkin, UT has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 72 reports from Utah.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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