CaseLight2012

Sandy, UT, USA

Bright flashing lights highly visisble from several miles away, stationary, wrong colors for helicopters.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-04
Where
Sandy, UT, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 min
Geo
40.592, -111.884 · exact
Slug
light-over-sandy-ut-2012-e2e1c4
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

  • One of 48 documented reports from Sandy, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 112 sightings in 2012.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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