Other over Orem, Provo, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was at work taking the trash out to the dumpster at 9 pm when in the upper western region of the nighttime sky I saw what appeared to be a crescent moon shape object forming as it travelled south. As it slowly formed over 10 to 15 seconds it was a blurry whitish color and turned reddish hue as it became more defined then it disappeared from view. The size of the object was 2 to 4 times bigger than the moon which was almost full at the time coming over the mountains to the east.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166320). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-01-15 → 2022-02-01