Orem, UT, USA
Very bright white light, motionless in western Utah night sky, sat still for 15 minutes then vanished in a blink of an eye.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-12
- Where
- Orem, UT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.297, -111.695 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-orem-ut-2020-7c5ea5
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
- Orem, UT has 47 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 108 reports from Utah.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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