CaseUnknown2012
West Valley City, UT, USA
These light color was not natural at all.
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-18
- Where
- West Valley City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.692, -112.001 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-west-valley-city-ut-2012-611b4b
Wave
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…
In context
- West Valley City, UT has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 112 reports from Utah.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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