UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

bright object, star like, motionless, thenrapid acceleration to SE/SSE

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-13
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
~40 seconds
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
other-over-salt-lake-city-ut-1997-543ec8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 235 documented reports from Salt Lake City, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 23 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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