Salem, UT, USA
9 non blinking lights equally spaced following each other in straight line northeast 2/8/2020 at 6:12 am
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-08
- Where
- Salem, UT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.053, -111.674 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-salem-ut-2020-5ee73e
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
- Salem, UT shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 108 reports came from Utah in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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