UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

10 to 15 slow traveling fireballs that faded into darkness. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))

Report quality: Moderate50/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-07-27
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2016-667f40
Wave

Part of a wave

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Local cluster

Local cluster

July 2016 was a busy month for Salt Lake City, UT: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 235 reports logged in Salt Lake City, UT.
  • This case is one of 92 Utah reports filed in 2016.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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