CaseSphere1980
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Stationary weather balloon May 1980 Salt Lake City , daytime 20 minutes .
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-05-01
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-salt-lake-city-ut-1980-c992b0
Local cluster
Local cluster
May 1980 was a busy month for Salt Lake City, UT: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 235 reports logged in Salt Lake City, UT.
- This case is one of 5 Utah reports filed in 1980.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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