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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