Salt Lake City, UT, USA
((HOAX??)) Panther-shaped object died in distance. ((anonymous))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2020-03-02
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2020-1cf1dd
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Salt Lake City, UT reports filed in March 2020.
In context
- Salt Lake City, UT shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 108 reports came from Utah in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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