CaseFireball2018

Logan, UT, USA

We spotted a strange firey light low in the sky that almost looked like an airplane that was on fire. My husband thought it was a meteo

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-06
Where
Logan, UT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
90 second
Geo
41.735, -111.834 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-logan-ut-2018-a8153c
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

  • Logan, UT shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from Utah in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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