Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Black Triangular Object Over Salt Lake City, Utah.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-04
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 20 minutes +
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2018-ea5e15
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Salt Lake City, UT in February 2018 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Salt Lake City, UT has 235 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 60 reports from Utah.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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