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113-MADAR SIGHTING INTELREP
Multiple Anomaly Detection & Automated Recording
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INQUIRY DATE: 20 Feb 2022

SOURCE: NUFORC check, random request on status of Skinwalker Ranch incidents and possible MADAR.

1) INITIAL RAW REPORT AS FOLLOWS:

September 17, 2022; Provo, Utah
1:40 pm.m Witnessed a spherical object hovering motionless 2000' in the air. After several minutes it made a rapid, controlled descent. While we were sitting on a rocky bluff taking in the scenery I happened to notice a bright, shiny object against the deep blue sky. At first I thought it was simply an airplane. But as I watched it for several more seconds I noticed there was no movement. It was totally suspended in the sky, I'd say 2000'-2500' in the air about 3 miles away. To be sure it wasn't moving, I put my thumb up directly under it and watched to see if it went up/down or left/right of my thumb. It did not move. It was hovering in place against ridiculously strong winds blowing from south to north. I watched this strange, hovering behavior for approximately 2-3 mins. About 1 minute after I began watching this object, I said to my wife Connie, "Connie, check that out. There's a UFO right there."said it half-jokingly, but in my mind there was no other logical explanation. I guess I was looking for some confirmation that what I was seeing was actually happening. We watched it together for another minute or so while it was hovering in place, both of us entirely perplexed. Connie even said to me, "That is really, really weird!" Shortly after she said that the object began to descend rapidly in a controlled manner down and to the left (from south to north) into the strong winds. I quickly grabbed her phone and started recording a video. I couldn't actually see the object on the phone because it was so far away, but I tracked it with my eyes while I moved the phone downward where I thought the object would remain visible in the frame. I lost the object with my eyes (and the phone) when it dropped to the same level as the mountains. That's why the video ends abruptly. I thought it was gone, but it was not. We got a visual on the object again about a minute later. It was hovering just above the treetops in front of the distant mountain. Kind of fading in and out of visibility. Then it just disappeared. Poof! Gone! 5 mins. (nuforc)

2) NUFORC PRINTOUT
Includes a search for sighting data (in NUFORC reverse order) prior to and subsequent to the initial sighting date.

9/20/22 20:30	Virgin	UT	USA	Light	30 minutes	Three objects moving in the sky at the same time into different directions and able to go back to their previous location faster than h	12/22/22
9/17/22 13:40	Provo	UT	USA	Sphere	5 minutes	Witnessed a spherical object hovering motionless 2000' in the air. After several minutes it made a rapid, controlled descent.	10/8/22	Yes
9/10/22 21:13	Centerville	UT	USA	Disk	10 Minutes	Saw 23 illuminated disks slowly flying overhead above my home in Centerville.

3) MUFON CMS NUMBER PRINTOUT
Includes a search for sighting data one day prior to and one day subsequent to the initial sighting date.

MUFON Case Management System - SEARCH

The search result is limited to max 50 returned Sighting Reports

	Date Submitted	Date/Time of Event	Short Description	Location of Event	Attachments
Cases Found = 2
1	2023-02-07	2022-09-16 7:49PM	From the avenues I noticed a fairly large triangular object in the sky hovering in the sky	Salt Lake City, UT, US	91622TriangleUFO.MOV 91622TriangularUFO1.MOV TriangleCraft916.MOV TriangularCraft9222.MOV
2	2022-09-17	2022-09-17 1:43PM	Hovering sphere that then descended rapidly toward the ground.	Provo, UT, US	UFO917221.mp4 UFO91722RAW.MOV ufosphere01.png ufosphere02.png

Was investigated by MUFON. witness must have filed reports at both locations.

4) MADAR ALERT SEARCH
Printout of code blue data for the nearest MADAR node.

No code blues in September for node 181.
175 was offline.

5) MADAR DATA
(See final report)

6) PROXIMITY
Map

114 miles measured.

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