CaseLight1980
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Bright starlike object over oil refinery in SLC zig zag over mountainside & went straight up at high speed
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-07-15
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salt-lake-city-ut-1980-0a60de
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in Salt Lake City, UT.
- This case is one of 5 Utah reports filed in 1980.
- Light craft made up 11% of 1980s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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