CaseTeardrop2016

Kearns, UT, USA

11:58 go our for a smoke and spot a object in the west sky pull out my phone start recording and it's moving really fast I compare a pl

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-02-01
Where
Kearns, UT, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 hour
Geo
40.660, -111.996 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-kearns-ut-2016-eae6a7
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 15 reports logged in Kearns, UT.
  • This case is one of 92 Utah reports filed in 2016.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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