CaseSphere2017

Magna, UT, USA

Bright glowing, reflected surface. Sphere-like, seemed to change shape slightly. Hovered below clouds for 30 min.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-31
Where
Magna, UT, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.709, -112.102 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-magna-ut-2017-1d7f9e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 17 reports logged in Magna, UT.
  • This case is one of 72 Utah reports filed in 2017.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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