CaseCircle2018

Saint George, UT, USA

Solid red light moving quickly across night sky, then turning back and moving quickly the other way with brief white light, then red ag

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-24
Where
Saint George, UT, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.104, -113.584 · exact
Slug
circle-over-saint-george-ut-2018-6ab93c
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

  • Saint George, UT shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from Utah in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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