Orem, UT, USA
Red creature seen early in the day, triangle seen later
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 43200s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-15
- Where
- Orem, UT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- all day
- Geo
- 40.297, -111.695 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-orem-ut-2016-8b0854
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 Orem, UT reports filed in October 2016.
In context
- Orem, UT shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Utah in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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