NUFORC Sighting 178332

Occurred: 2017-11-17 16:20 Local
Reported: 2023-09-17 04:16 Pacific
Duration: :10 min.
No of observers: 1

Location: Beaver, UT, USA
Location details: First seen coming out of the eastern mountains then crossed to west of Utah I-15

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

The UFO came from the eastern mountains and continued over Beaver, Utah to the west side of Utah I-15.

After crossing to the west side of I-15 the object changed direction to approach 6 or 7 military craft flying wingtip to wingtip toward the north. The object seemed to be approaching at such a speed that I felt sure it was going to crash into the military aircraft on the eastern end of the formation, but it came to a sudden stop as it got very close and continued to keep pace with the line of jets traveling north for a few seconds. It detached itself from the jets then approached more overhead toward Beaver, Utah when it entered a sparse cloud that was a little larger than the craft where it stopped then merely quickly vanished. The cloud wasn't affected by the vanishing of the object. The next day there was a lot of military aircraft forming a dome over Beaver County of various types of craft. This lasted for about two weeks during daylight hours, and I had the impression they were interested in trying to find information on the vanishing of strange craft of the day before. When I first saw the craft I remember thinking, "That thing has no wings." Thus was my surprise at first seeing the object. I also recall thinking there would surely be plenty of news about such an object as Beaver is a small town of about 3,000 population.

Posted 2023-10-28