CaseRectangle1978

Arches National Park, UT, USA

Four continuous distinct rectangular colors of light (red, blue, white, yellow) moving across the craft left to right.

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 (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-24
Where
Arches National Park, UT, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.723, -109.586 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-arches-national-park-ut-1978-eb8fc5
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Arches National Park, UT has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 2 reports from Utah.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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