Changing over West Jordan/Midvale, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
my daughter was out observing the night sky around 10pm on 8/11/2020 she came running into the house to tell me she sees something strange moving in the sky. I came outside to see and she pointed at a cloud against the night sky and clearly a u shaped grayish object with a black center was zig zagging like a snake through the cloud then it disappeared. I would think this object was pretty big being that it looked large in the clouds and the clouds were at least several thousand feet in the air. minutes later to the south of us I noticed 3 stars in the sky get blocked out by what looked like a stationary or slow moving cloud until the cloud dove straight down towards the ground and evaporated before my eyes and the stars that were blocked out were back. minutes after that that same cloud was over my house and moved to the west faster than a cloud moves and once again disappeared. shortly after this with in 3-5 minutes that cloud formation which was roughly the! size of a bus moved over my house quickly again and heading south and evaporated not before my daughter and I witnessed 5 or six glowing lights within the cloud. until it disappeared over my neighbors house.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158467). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-08-08 → 2020-08-25