Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Strange lights in Salt Lake.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-01
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2013-7922d0
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…
Local cluster
Salt Lake City, UT logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2013.
In context
- One of 235 documented reports from Salt Lake City, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Utah logged 94 sightings in 2013.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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