CaseSphere2018
Plain City, UT, USA
High altitude object flashing random white light in
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-25
- Where
- Plain City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~50 seconds
- Geo
- 41.298, -112.086 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-plain-city-ut-2018-0c0325
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Plain City, UT has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 60 reports from Utah.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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