CaseFormation2018

Ogden, UT, USA

Bright orange objects above Salt Lake.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-03
Where
Ogden, UT, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
41.223, -111.974 · exact
Slug
formation-over-ogden-ut-2018-22a964
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

  • Ogden, UT shows up 49 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from Utah in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.