Clearfield, UT, USA
Low flying, Silent, triangular with four lights, One steady light on each rounded corner and one swirling light in the center.
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-08-15
- Where
- Clearfield, UT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 41.111, -112.026 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-clearfield-ut-1997-973ab5
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Clearfield, UT shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from Utah in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.