CaseSphere2013
Syracuse, UT, USA
Blue Orb UFO spotted flying over northern Utah.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-11
- Where
- Syracuse, UT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 41.089, -112.065 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-syracuse-ut-2013-f5af5b
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Syracuse, UT.
- This case is one of 94 Utah reports filed in 2013.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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