UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

West Valley, UT, USA

((NUFORC Note: Student report. Probable hoax. PD)) It was such a scary sight.

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-10-17
Where
West Valley, UT, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.692, -112.001 · exact
Slug
other-over-west-valley-ut-2005-af4f6c
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In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from West Valley, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 30 sightings in 2005.
  • Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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