CaseSphere1980
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Stationary silver ball very high in daytime May 1980 observed approximately 45 minutes.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-05-20
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 min
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-salt-lake-city-ut-1980-8da654
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Salt Lake City, UT in May 1980 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Salt Lake City, UT has 235 sightings on file here.
- 1980 brought 5 reports from Utah.
- The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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