Bonneville Salt Flats (Salt Lake City), UT, USA
Bonneville Salt Flats, July 09, Investigator, Bright White Lights, Semi-Circle, Pulsations, Motorcycle
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-27
- Where
- Bonneville Salt Flats (Salt Lake City), UT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-bonneville-salt-flats-salt-lake-city-ut-2009-f16b5e
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
- Bonneville Salt Flats (Salt Lake City), UT has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 36 reports from Utah.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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