San Rafael Swell, UT, USA
A remarkably bright white ball of light flew across the sky, no higher than a thousand feet above us. The craft traveled low, and slowl
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-15
- Where
- San Rafael Swell, UT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.824, -110.677 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-rafael-swell-ut-2020-a0525a
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in San Rafael Swell, UT.
- This case is one of 108 Utah reports filed in 2020.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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