CaseSphere2020

Springdale, UT, USA

A bright white sphere, which we at first expected to be a planet, was seen in the night sky near Zion National Park. The object slowly

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-14
Where
Springdale, UT, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.189, -112.999 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-springdale-ut-2020-c0d0e7
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 5 reports logged in Springdale, UT.
  • This case is one of 108 Utah reports filed in 2020.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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