diff --git a/search_engine_parser/core/utils.py b/search_engine_parser/core/utils.py
index f7211e7..ac77596 100644
--- a/search_engine_parser/core/utils.py
+++ b/search_engine_parser/core/utils.py
@@ -2,11 +2,23 @@
 import random
 import pickle
 import hashlib
+import logging
 import aiohttp
 from fake_useragent import UserAgent
 
 FILEPATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
+# fake-useragent already recovers internally when its cache server is
+# unreachable or returns unexpected data (it falls back to querying the
+# cache server for raw JSON, see its utils.py:load()), but it logs that
+# recovery as a warning with a full traceback attached (exc_info=exc).
+# get_rand_user_agent() below is a second layer of defense on top of
+# that, so the traceback is just noise that led users to file bug
+# reports for something that was never actually failing (see
+# bisohns/search-engine-parser#159). Scoped to fake_useragent's own
+# logger only, so we don't hide warnings from anything else.
+logging.getLogger('fake_useragent').setLevel(logging.ERROR)
+
 # prevent caching
 USER_AGENT_LIST = [
     "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0",
diff --git a/search_engine_parser/tests/test_utils.py b/search_engine_parser/tests/test_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f588d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/search_engine_parser/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import logging
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock, PropertyMock
+
+from search_engine_parser.core.utils import get_rand_user_agent, USER_AGENT_LIST
+
+FAKE_USERAGENT_LOGGER = logging.getLogger('fake_useragent')
+
+
+class ListHandler(logging.Handler):
+    """ Collects emitted log records for later assertions """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.records = []
+
+    def emit(self, record):
+        self.records.append(record)
+
+
+def raise_index_error(*args, **kwargs):
+    # Mirrors fake-useragent's own internal behaviour when its cache
+    # server is unreachable or returns unexpected data: it logs a
+    # WARNING with a full traceback attached (exc_info) before falling
+    # back, see fake_useragent/utils.py:load() in the fake-useragent
+    # package itself.
+    FAKE_USERAGENT_LOGGER.warning(
+        'Error occurred during loading data. '
+        'Trying to use cache server %s',
+        'https://fake-useragent.herokuapp.com',
+        exc_info=IndexError('list index out of range'),
+    )
+    raise IndexError('list index out of range')
+
+
+class UtilsTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    @patch('search_engine_parser.core.utils.UserAgent')
+    def test_get_rand_user_agent_falls_back_and_suppresses_warning(self, mock_user_agent_class):
+        """
+        get_rand_user_agent() must fall back to USER_AGENT_LIST when
+        fake_useragent fails internally (bisohns/search-engine-parser#159),
+        and the fake_useragent logger must not surface a WARNING-or-above
+        record while it does so.
+        """
+        mock_instance = MagicMock()
+        type(mock_instance).random = PropertyMock(side_effect=raise_index_error)
+        mock_user_agent_class.return_value = mock_instance
+
+        handler = ListHandler()
+        FAKE_USERAGENT_LOGGER.addHandler(handler)
+        try:
+            result = get_rand_user_agent()
+        finally:
+            FAKE_USERAGENT_LOGGER.removeHandler(handler)
+
+        warning_or_above = [r for r in handler.records if r.levelno >= logging.WARNING]
+        self.assertEqual(
+            warning_or_above, [],
+            "fake_useragent logger emitted a WARNING-or-above record; "
+            "utils.py's suppression should prevent this (see #159)"
+        )
+        self.assertIn(result, USER_AGENT_LIST)