CaseLight2009

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

star-like object changed color from white light to red; moved very fast & maneuvred like no conventional aircraft

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-14
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 & 30 mins
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
light-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2009-907b7a
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…

In context

  • Salt Lake City, UT has 235 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 36 reports from Utah.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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