Oval over Salt Lake City, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I just detailed it
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171709). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-01-13 → 2021-01-30
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October 17, 2023 · 7:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Salt Lake City, UT
Saw what looked like a weird cylindrical tube in the clouds, watched it and looked like we launched something but it was coming from a weird angle to be from the closest known military base and the scale was weird, as well as the following aerial phenomena. I took video. Maybe nothing but was really weird. Around 7:15 or so in the morning local time. Do not release my name but you may contact me if needed. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Certain]
October 9, 2023 · 6:40 AM · LIGHT
Salt Lake City, UT
I have been seeing this stationary light in the west sky from south salt lake for about two weeks now. The light seems to be bouncing within a shadow behind it and seems to almost pulsate different colors. Unfortunately I cant seem to catch the shadow with my iphone. Today a small light seems to fly in from the left side of the screen bounce up past the main light and almost take a right turn up and to the left and then disappears. The first two videos are form today 10/09/2023 and the third video and picture are from September 21st. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
October 1, 2023 · 6:58 PM · CIGAR
Salt Lake City, UT
There was a very bright cigar shaped object in the sky above the houses. I was facing north. There was a storm coming in. It did not move. I watched for about 4 minutes and it was motionless. Took 3 pics, went to get binocs when I came back it was gone.
September 26, 2023 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
Salt Lake City, UT
A white orb sting from the my backyard and it was still pretty close that I knew it was not an airplane. It didn’t have any flashing lights or really loud noise. It’s pretty quiet. I like to hear was crickets in the backyard and as it was flying by I was saying that I could see you and it slowly turned off like I could not see any more like his lights went dim, but you can still kind of family see it
September 4, 2023 · 8:52 PM · SPHERE
Salt Lake City, UT
My girlfriend and I were sitting at a pool when I jokingly said hey look a ufo thinking it was a plane. It was orange though, no flashing of green or red lights like a plane or a drone. It was traveling slowly then seemed to stop and hover after 25 seconds, hovered for 5 and then just disappeared in the clear sky.
August 31, 2023 · 12:50 PM · CUBE
Salt Lake City, UT
White colored cube. Hovering for 2-3 minutes. Motionless in the sky probably 1000 ft up or so. Then it just vanished.