CaseRectangle2013

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Red and white lights above the great salt lake that appeared to be moving.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-11-13
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
~5 minutes
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2013-cf3841
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Salt Lake City, UT in November 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Salt Lake City, UT has 235 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 94 reports from Utah.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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