CaseTriangle2005

West Valley, UT, USA

We were looking up at the stars when we saw a triangle craft flying very fast but very silently. The craft Was bright and was flashing

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-17
Where
West Valley, UT, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
Geo
40.692, -112.001 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-west-valley-ut-2005-fc7f4a
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 11 documented reports from West Valley, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 30 sightings in 2005.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 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.