Bountiful, UT, USA
Bright light - minimal movement. Too high to be a helicopter. No known planes or stars in the area. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-01-29
- Where
- Bountiful, UT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.889, -111.881 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-bountiful-ut-2017-8e161b
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
- Bountiful, UT has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 72 reports from Utah.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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