Payson, UT, USA
Pulsing bright white lights, circle object in the night sky, moved in circles, up and down-left to right,went straight down disappeared
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-07
- Where
- Payson, UT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 40.044, -111.732 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-payson-ut-2011-584bb8
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Payson, UT.
- This case is one of 57 Utah reports filed in 2011.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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