UFOMYST
CaseFormation2011

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Two horizontal rows of 4-5 shimmering spots or lights in formation - it rumbled

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-02-12
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4 - 5 minutes
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
formation-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2011-fa5254
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…

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In context

  • One of 235 documented reports from Salt Lake City, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 57 sightings in 2011.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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