CaseLight2016

Cedar Hills, UT, USA

35-50 white star-like lights, moving a cross sky, toward NSA building.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-20
Where
Cedar Hills, UT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.414, -111.759 · exact
Slug
light-over-cedar-hills-ut-2016-9a064e
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 2 reports logged in Cedar Hills, UT.
  • This case is one of 92 Utah reports filed in 2016.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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