Cigar over Sandy (suburb of SLC), UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My friend & I witnessed a white, cigar-shaped object that hovered over the high Wasatch mountains east of Sandy, UT. It hovered, motionless, then moved (slowly) north. It stopped & started, moving slowly, before appearing to drop behind the mountains (into what is a wilderness area). No sound. No wings. No lights (even though at the brink of night). Not moving--until it did. When it turned, the setting sun glinted, briefly, off the object. From our vantage point, the object was about the size of a very large grain of rice.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129125). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-08-05 → 2016-08-22