◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Lights That Circled Logan
At about 22:30 on 8 September 1947 two couples leaving a bridge game in Logan, Utah, watched about a dozen pigeon-sized white lights circle the city in formation and head north, and other groups across town reported the same. An early incident summary and the FBI both took the accounts down, and neither offers an evaluation. This is the record of what the people of Logan reported, not a verdict on what circled the city.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Lights That Circled Logan is a reported UAP case in Logan, Utah, USA, 8 September 1947, about 22:30 (MST).
- Two married couples leaving a bridge game in Logan, Utah, at about 22:30 on 8 September 1947 reported about a dozen pigeon-sized white lights circling the city in formation in one to two minutes, faster than birds and without wingbeats.
- An FBI memo records Mrs Fred Thunell, her husband and five others seeing five groups of 35 to 60 small yellowish-white objects circling Logan between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m.
- Mr and Mrs Norman Hall separately reported a group like moving stars travelling clockwise over the city and changing formation.
- Neither the incident summary nor the FBI memo offers an evaluation, and the Blue Book card's conclusion is illegible; its altitude of 29,000 to 39,000 feet conflicts with the witnesses' 2,000 to 3,000 feet.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 3 distinct sources, 3 corroborating primary documents and 7 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-12; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
8 September 1947, about 22:30 (MST)
LOCATION
Logan, Utah · USA
COORDS
41.74°N 111.83°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
3 distinct
CLAIMANTS
7
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-12 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
