Garden City, UT, USA
Whitish orb changing shape hovering over Bear Lake.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-05
- Where
- Garden City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.947, -111.394 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-garden-city-ut-2015-38c4a9
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
3 reports came out of Garden City, UT in January 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Garden City, UT has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 78 reports from Utah.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.