Hurricane, UT, USA
Long line of twinkling lights. 20+ objects. ((NUFORC Note: Possible military exercise? PD))
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-08
- Where
- Hurricane, UT, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ~15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.175, -113.290 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-hurricane-ut-2018-e87209
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
- Hurricane, UT shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Utah in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.