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CaseLight2016

Orem, UT, USA

My girlfriend saw a light,over the western mountains,across from Utah Lake. I looked out the window and it was a big, gold light. It wa

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-10-17
Where
Orem, UT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.297, -111.695 · exact
Slug
light-over-orem-ut-2016-fa9a6a
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Orem, UT in October 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Orem, UT has 47 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 92 reports from Utah.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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